{"id":60376,"date":"2025-11-17T19:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=60376"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:35:50","slug":"police-charge-man-for-flight-from-police-assaulting-an-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=60376","title":{"rendered":"Police charge man for flight from police, assaulting an officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> On November 15 at approximately 11:40 p.m., an officer observed a vehicle in the McDonald\u2019s parking lot, located at 10 Peakview Way in Halifax, with a license plate not associated to any vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer conducted a traffic stop and approached the driver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked for driver identification and vehicle documents, the driver reversed the vehicle, then attempted to drive away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The driver was directed to stop but continued to flee and struck the officer with the vehicle,&#8221; a spokesperson said in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle left the area at a high rate of speed. The officer briefly followed the vehicle out Highway 102 but terminated the pursuit for safety concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 16, at approximately 8:30 a.m., officers located and arrested the driver without further incident. The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver, a 26-year-old man, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court at a later date to face charges of: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flight from peace officer <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dangerous operation of a conveyance <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assault a peace officer <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assault with a weapon <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>File # 25-166049<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56191&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: On November 15 at approximately 11:40 p.m., an officer observed a vehicle in the McDonald\u2019s parking lot, located at 10 Peakview Way in Halifax, with a license plate not associated to any vehicle. The officer conducted a traffic stop and approached the driver. When asked for driver identification and vehicle documents, the driver reversed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[9735,4847,50,918,51,4388],"class_list":["post-60376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-assaulting-an-officer","tag-flight-from-police","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-regional-police","tag-hrp","tag-mcdonalds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60376","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=60376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}