A 22-year-old man is facing a plethora of charges after allegedly throwing a bladed weapon at a Regina police officer over the weekend. Shortly before 11 a.m. on Saturday (Aug. 16), officers were in the area of 13th Avenue and Osler Street where they spotted a man walking and acting suspiciously, the Regina Police Service said in a news release Monday. The officers pulled over and tried to speak with the man, which caused him to drop his backpack and run away. Police chased the man on foot to an empty parking lot near Victoria Avenue. At that point, the man stopped running, pulled a machete from the pocket of his pants and allegedly threw it at one of the officers. The officer was not hurt in the exchange, police said. The man was taken into custody. A search of his backpack turned up multiple knives and a loaded gun. The suspect was treated for minor injuries consistent with “running with a machete in one’s pocket,” the service noted in its news release. The accused faces 11 charges in total. They include possession of a weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, four counts of possessing a firearm contrary to a prohibition order, possessing a firearm knowing it is unauthorized, possessing a loaded/restricted firearm and failure to comply with a release order. The accused made his first appearance on his charges in Regina provincial court Monday.
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