Halifax Regional Police say a 23-year-old man is facing multiple charges — including sexual assault, forcible confinement and uttering threats — in connection with an incident over the weekend.
Officers responded at around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday to an apartment building on Brunswick Street where it was reported a sexual assault had just occurred.
“A man approached a woman in a common area of the building and sexually assaulted her. The man was not known to the woman,” police said in a news release.
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A man was arrested at the scene a “short time later.”
Mykhailo Bielinskyi, 23, was scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on Monday to face charges of:
- Sexual assault
- Assault causing bodily harm
- Choking to overcome resistance
- Uttering threats
- Mischief
- Forcible confinement