{"id":58279,"date":"2025-09-07T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=58279"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:01:00","slug":"lantz-youth-facing-charges-after-fleeing-police-speeding-driving-dangerously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=58279","title":{"rendered":"Lantz youth facing charges after fleeing police, speeding, driving dangerously"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LANTZ:<\/strong> An 18-year-old Lantz man is facing a slew of charges after an incident involving police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Sgt. Scott MacRae said that officers were conducting traffic enforcement on Sept. 1 near Highway 102 when they observed a vehicle travelling at 160 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe driver failed to stop for police,\u201d said Sgt. MacRae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the vehicle was then observed driving dangerously as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver was identified and arrested shortly after, said Sgt. MacRae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18-year-old is facing charges for Flight from Police, Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle, Assault, and Breach of Probation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56191&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANTZ: An 18-year-old Lantz man is facing a slew of charges after an incident involving police. East Hants RCMP Sgt. Scott MacRae said that officers were conducting traffic enforcement on Sept. 1 near Highway 102 when they observed a vehicle travelling at 160 kilometres per hour. \u201cThe driver failed to stop for police,\u201d said Sgt. [&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":[424,196,1581,4847,595,14,663],"class_list":["post-58279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-news","tag-assault","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-rcmp","tag-flight-from-police","tag-lantz","tag-rcmp","tag-speeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58279","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=58279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58279\/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=58279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}