A man is facing charges after police responded to a report of a man pointing a firearm at a woman on Cape Breton Island.
The alleged incident occurred just after 4 p.m. April 12, at a home on East River West Side Road in Glencoe, N.S.
In a news release, Pictou County District RCMP said they learned the woman fled to a nearby home and wasn’t injured.
RCMP said the woman told officers the man pointed a firearm at her and pulled the trigger, but the firearm wasn’t loaded.
According to the release, RCMP officers attempted to contact the man inside the home as its Emergency Response Team and negotiators made their way to the scene.
RCMP said they saw the man leave from the back of the home and took him into custody.
A search warrant resulted in the seizure of more than a dozen firearms including six handguns, seven shotguns, a crossbow and multiple gun parts.
Police also found a First World War-era bazooka that RCMP turned over to the Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic.
The man, 55-year-old Daren Douglas Loucks from Glencoe, is facing four firearms-related charges as well as one charge of uttering threats.
Loucks is set to appear in court on Wednesday.