A Fabricare Cleaning Centre employee in Gravenhurst, Ont., was assaulted on Wednesday morning following an incident that involved sanitizer, Bracebridge OPP say.
Police say the employee noted that a man at the business wasn’t a customer, so they asked him to leave.
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The man then took a bottle of sanitizer and threw it outside, which required the employee to pick it up, officers say.
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During the interaction, the man allegedly assaulted the employee.
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Travis Gostick, 30, from Gravenhurst, was subsequently charged with assault and theft under $5,000.
He will appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge in September.
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