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UPDATE: October-29-14 9:30 PM
The 20-year-old male suspect will remain in police custody overnight and will appear in Halifax Provincial Court in the morning. He is facing the following charges: Two counts of break and enter, obstruct/resist arrest, possession of housebreaking tools and theft and possession under $5000. Members of the Integrated General Investigation Section continue to work on this file and additional charges are possible.
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At 2:40 p.m. police received a call regarding a break and enter into a residence on Cedarbank Terrace where the caller stated that the possible suspect was fleeing the scene in a red canoe in Northwest Arm. Officers attended both sides of the Northwest Arm in an attempt to keep their sights on the man so they could arrest him. He made his way to land in the area of Sir Sandford Fleming Park where he was arrested by members of Patrol and the K-9 Unit at 3:36 p.m. Forensic Identification officers attended the scene where we recovered the canoe as well as items that were believed to have been stolen from the break and enter. It has yet to be determined if the canoe was stolen and, if so, from where.
We thank the citizen who offered to allow our officers to board their boat as part of our response to this incident; however, by the time we were able to organize this effort the man had made his way to land.
The man, 20, remains in custody at this time and the matter is under investigation.