It was later confirmed that the tools were stolen from the barn the suspect had been seen leaving earlier. 357 magnum handgun on the floor of the front passenger side of the vehicle, the release noted, along with power tools and a crack pipe.

Officers searched the suspect’s grey older-model Jeep for weapons or evidence and found a BB gun resembling a Remington 1875. Paramedics were called to deal with a significant cut the suspect sustained to his forehead. The suspect was arrested for breaking and entering. “The officer, while shaken from the airbag deploying, managed to exit his vehicle and take control of the suspect without incident,” the release noted. The suspect vehicle crashed head-on into the officer’s vehicle, causing the police vehicle’s airbags to deploy. A short time later another officer came upon the vehicle, which was weaving and driving directly at his police vehicle.

Upon being confronted by the property owner, the suspect produced what appeared to be a handgun and then fled in a vehicle, noted a Nanaimo RCMP press release.Īn RCMP officer intercepted and a tried to stop the suspect’s vehicle, but the driver refused to stop and sped away. Tuesday, June 7, when police responded to a report of a man who had broken into a barn on a rural property on Maughan Road. A man allegedly broke into a barn south of Nanaimo, brandished a BB gun when confronted, crashed into a police vehicle and got arrested.

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