Local man charged following high-risk incident Tuesday
By Medicine Hat News on May 4, 2023.
A 32-year-old Medicine Hat man has been taken into custody and is facing numerous charges following a high-risk incident Tuesday in the Southwest Hill neighbourhood. Medicine Hat Police Service’s Tactical Response and Crisis Negotiation teams responded to a residential property on the 300 block of 11th Street SW early Tuesday evening when police became aware of the presence of the man, wanted for various criminal offences, inside the home. Information gathered by police suggested the man had access to a weapon within the home, and therefore police made several attempts to have him exit the home of his own accord, none of which were successful. Tactical Response and Crisis Negotiation team members eventually entered the home and apprehended the man without incident. The incident was resolved roughly three hours after it began. The man, whose name has not been released, is facing charges of assault with a weapon, two counts of possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, pointing a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, uttering threats, failure to comply with an undertaking and five counts of failure to comply with a release order. He remains in custody pending a bail hearing. Police say the investigation into the incident is ongoing, but iterate the suspect charged in relation to Tuesday’s high-risk incident is not the same man charged April 27 in relation to two homemade pipe bombs (reported in the Tuesday’s edition of the News). Police did confirm the residential property where the arrests took place was the same in both cases, but were unable to confirm whether any connection exists between the men. 9-8
