Medicine Hat police arrested a local 42-year-old man who they say broke into a woman’s house and assaulted her with pepper spray last week.
Authorities allege he also brandished a firearm during the incident that occurred just before midnight on Oct. 23 near the 300 Block of Fourth Street NW.
No name was released by the Medicine Hat Police Service, which states five charges related to the incident have been laid. They include breaking and entering, assault with a weapon, robbery and possession of dangerous weapons. Six other charges relate to breaking court-imposed release conditions.
Police say the incident was a targeted attack, and they believe there is no threat to the general public.
Fatal head-on crash
A 60-year-old man was thrown from his vehicle and killed after he lost control in poor weather and hit a van head on near Raymond, Alta. on Oct. 23.
Five occupants of the other vehicle were taken to hospital, including a nine-year-old girl who was in “serious, but stable” condition on Saturday.
The accident occurred one kilometre west of Raymond on Highway 52 during an afternoon snow storm, and shut down the stretch of secondary highway for five hours.
The 67-year-old male driver of the van, two women in their 30s, and a six-year-old boy were taken to hospital in Lethbridge but were released.
Drug haul in Sask.
Mounties in east-central Saskatchewan have charged a Strathmore man after they say they found cocaine and garbage bags full of pot during traffic stops.
Two separate stops last week by RCMP officers stationed in Kindersley led to drug investigations and drug-trafficking charges.
Police allege Matthew Lewis Davey, 33, of Strathmore, was speeding on Highway 7 west of Kindersley on Oct. 21, when they say a search found 850 grams of cocaine and seven pounds of cannabis.
The previous day, another man, Clinton James Senko, 34, of Saskatoon, was charged after police seized nearly 100 pounds of marijuana in a separate stop.
Both vehicles were seized, and the men are to appear in court on Dec. 15.
