A 24-year-old man is facing multiple charges after a woman and a youth were threatened with a knife on Spring Garden Road on Monday.
In a release, Halifax Regional Police said a man with a knife was reported in the 5600 block of Spring Garden Road shortly after 5 p.m.
“A man threatened and showed a knife to a woman and youth who were standing on the sidewalk and were not known to him,” the release said.
The suspect and a woman who was with him then left the area on foot, police said.
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Police were then told by a pedestrian that a man was seen “waving a knife around” in a building in the 5600 block of Sackville Street.
Officers determined the man, who left the building before officers arrived, matched the description of the person involved in the earlier incident.
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The man was arrested in the 1900 block of Brunswick Street at 5:35 p.m.
The 24-year-old has been charged with uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace, and failure to comply with a probation order.
He is scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on Tuesday.
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