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Man vandalizes lobby of Cobourg police station

A man faces charges after he allegedly vandalized the Cobourg police station. Global Peterborough file

A man faces charges after the lobby of the Cobourg Police Service station was vandalized on Tuesday.

Police say around 5:30 p.m. a man known to police entered the lobby of the station on King Street West.

They say the man “became violent” and started smashing one of the wall-mounted lobby televisions and threw a table.

Police subdued and arrested the man.

James Rankin, 33, of no fixed address, was charged with mischief under $5,000 and breach of probation.

He was held in custody and is scheduled for a bail hearing in court in Cobourg on Wednesday.

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