{"id":48128,"date":"2024-09-03T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=48128"},"modified":"2024-09-03T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T10:30:00","slug":"suspicious-man-prompts-police-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=48128","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious man prompts police response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> RCMP had a call of a different kind on Aug. 28 in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Preston Burns, with East Hants RCMP, said police were called about a suspicious person checking out vehicles in an Elmsdale subdivision in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe concerned resident told police a man dressed in dark clothing, holding a flashlight and looking into vehicles down the street,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident was happening on Hemlock Drive in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;218&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said in an attempt to catch a thief in action, an immediate patrol was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn scene, our officers located the suspect who was found to be walking his cat on a leash after he had consumed cannabis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe explained to the officers that he was walking wherever his cat would lead him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the complainant was updated and the man was led home\u2026this time by officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] ELMSDALE: RCMP had a call of a different kind on Aug. 28 in Elmsdale. Const. Preston Burns, with East Hants RCMP, said police were called about a suspicious person checking out vehicles in an Elmsdale subdivision in the early morning hours. \u201cThe concerned resident told police a man dressed in dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12,957],"tags":[7291,7292,986,14,7293,7294],"class_list":["post-48128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-news","tag-cannabis","tag-cat-burgular","tag-elmsdale","tag-rcmp","tag-suspicious-man","tag-walking-a-cat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}