{"id":12931,"date":"2026-06-29T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=12931"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:14:18","slug":"police-in-one-jurisdiction-responded-to-814-calls-for-service-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/police-in-one-jurisdiction-responded-to-814-calls-for-service-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in One Jurisdiction Responded to 814 Calls For Service Over The Weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weekend update<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halifax Regional Police responded to 814 calls for service over the weekend. Some notable incidents are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police charge man with weapons offences and uttering threats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 26 at approximately 10:15 p.m., police responded to a weapons incident at the McDonald\u2019s located at 25 Nantucket Avenue in Dartmouth. The caller reported that a man approached him and his two friends outside, asked them for a cigarette and threatened them with a metal object. Upon arrival, officers located the suspect in the parking lot and arrested him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 40-year-old man is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth provincial court at a later date to face charges of uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death (x3) and possession of a weapon dangerous to public peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">26-99537<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police charge man with dangerous operation and flight from police<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 28 at approximately 11:55 a.m., police observed a vehicle believed to be stolen, travelling on Burnside Drive, near Wright Avenue in Dartmouth. Officers did not initiate a traffic stop at that time but followed the vehicle from a distance. Upon seeing police, the vehicle fled at a high rate of speed. Officers did not pursue and lost sight of the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At approximately 1:55 p.m., officers located the vehicle, broken down with a flat tire, on Highway 118. The suspect was arrested without incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Travis Thompson, 27, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court today to face charges of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flight from police<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dangerous operation of a conveyance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Operation while prohibited<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of stolen property over $5000.00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of stolen property under $5000.00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breach of probation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: HRP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend update Halifax Regional Police responded to 814 calls for service over the weekend. Some notable incidents are as follows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12932,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions\/12932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}