By paNOW Staff

Police seize homemade weapons; handgun

Jul 4, 2017 | 12:12 PM

Prince Albert police seized a cache of weapons over the weekend, including homemade ones and a handgun. 

On Friday, June 30, at roughly 2 p.m., officers arrested a man on outstanding warrants in the 1100 block of 17th St. W. Police found the man in his bedroom along with a collection of homemade weapons. The weapons were seized.

The 24-year-old man was charged with breach of recognizance and conditions to not possess prohibited or restricted weapons. He will make his first appearance in Prince Albert Provincial Court today.

On Monday morning, at roughly 1:45 a.m. officers responded to a robbery-in-progress. The victim of the theft knew the suspect who stole his vehicle at gunpoint.

The vehicle was located by officers on 18th St. W. and Fourth Ave. W. When the vehicle refused to stop, police followed it out of Prince Albert to Highway 3 towards Birch Hills.

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Officers placed stop sticks on the highway leading back to the Prince Albert in an attempt to stop the driver. The vehicle drove over the trap but continued on. A patrol car managed to cut the driver off, causing damage to both vehicles when they collided. Luckily no one was injured.

The driver then fled the vehicle on foot, but police dog Daxa and her handler Const. Kelsey Bighetty were put on his track. The pair found the suspect hiding in a yard and Daxa successfully engaged the suspect.

Kristopher Nigel Lionel Charles, 20-years-old of Grandmother’s Bay, is charged with multiple offences including using a firearm in the commission of an indictable offense, operate a motor vehicle in a manner dangerous to the public, and pointing a firearm.

Charles will appear in Prince Albert Provincial Court this morning.

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