{"id":57074,"date":"2025-07-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=57074"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:00:00","slug":"police-charge-dartmouth-man-with-weapons-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=57074","title":{"rendered":"Police charge Dartmouth man with weapons offences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE: <\/strong>RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment has charged a man with weapons offences following a report of a disturbance at a park in Lower Sackville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 16, at approximately 3:30 p.m., RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment responded to a report of a weapons complaint at a splash pad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arrival, officers learned that a man had threatened a woman with a sensory irritant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the altercation, the man then took out a knife from his waistband. Witnesses were able to take the knife from the man and toss it away from him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The man then fled and was not at the park when officers arrived. No one was physically injured in the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the investigation, the man was identified as Jacob Joseph Jenkins, 32, of Dartmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 9:50 p.m. that evening, officers safely arrested Jenkins at a home in Dartmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenkins has been charged with Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose (two counts), Uttering Threats, and Assault with Weapon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appeared in Dartmouth Provincial Court on July 17 and has been released pending another court appearance in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #25-101284<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SACKVILLE: RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment has charged a man with weapons offences following a report of a disturbance at a park in Lower Sackville. On July 16, at approximately 3:30 p.m., RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment responded to a report of a weapons complaint at a splash pad. Upon arrival, officers learned that a man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[185,50,13,14,979],"class_list":["post-57074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-dartmouth","tag-halifax","tag-lower-sackville","tag-rcmp","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57074","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=57074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57074\/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=57074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}