TIMMINS POLICE SERVICE
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The Timmins Police Service has charged a local man with a number of Criminal Code offences stemming from an assaultive altercation which occurred during the late afternoon hours of Wednesday, Oct. 9.
The Timmins Police Service responded to a complaint regarding a disturbance in a laneway off of Third Avenue in Timmins.
One of the persons involved in the disturbance is alleged to have engaged in a belligerent verbal dispute with the police officer and refused to identify himself or comply with the investigative detention directions given to him by the police.
The suspect was eventually arrested and found to be in possession of an edged weapon.
Based on the outcome of the investigation, Jaime Lewis-Beckford, 40, of Timmins, has been charged with:
- Obstruct peace officer contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
- Resist peace officer contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
- Carry concealed weapon contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
- Fail to comply with probation order contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
- Fail to comply with undertaking contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
The accused remains in police custody awaiting a bail hearing slated for this morning at Provincial Court in Timmins to answer to the charges laid against him.
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