A Nova Scotian man has been charged with a number of offences after police responded to a report of a person threatening to burn down a house within the rural neighborhood of Hilden, N.S. Thursday night.
In a launch from the RCMP, police say they have been advised the person had uncovered himself to numerous individuals, together with kids, and was armed with a rifle.
“Colchester County District RCMP officers, with assistance from the Nova Scotia RCMP Emergency Response Team, East Hants District RCMP, Sipekne’katik RCMP and Millbrook RCMP, secured the area and confirmed that the man was contained,” the discharge stated.
“RCMP officers established communication with the man in an effort to resolve the incident peacefully.”
Police decided the alleged rifle turned out to be an Air Soft gun, which police described as an imitation firearm.
A little bit over two hours following the officers’ arrival, the home was cleared and the person was taken into custody and transported to a cell within the RCMP’s Bible Hill detachment.
The 42-year-old man from Brookfield, N.S., has been charged with two firearm-related prices, committing an indecent act, and two counts of uttering threats.
He stays in custody and can seem in Truro Provincial Court on May 1.
