HALIFAX A 35-year-old Dartmouth woman is facing several charges including impaired driving and assaulting a police officer, following an incident on Saturday in Dartmouth. Police say at approximately 6:18 p.m. on Feb. 13, RCMP responded to a 911 call of a possible impaired driver on Highway 118 near Burnside Drive. Police say the vehicle was reported to be driving erratically and swerving on the road. An officer located the vehicle and saw that there were two small children in the back seat. The officer administered a roadside screening device, which police say the driver failed. The officer offered to allow the driver to call a family member or friend to be with the children as the suspect would be transported to the detachment for further testing.
HALIFAX A 31-year-old Halifax man is facing multiple firearm charges after being arrested by police on Wednesday. On Jan. 27, police arrested a 31-year-old Halifax man on Wilkinson Ave. in Dartmouth without incident. Police say the arrest was the result of an investigation into a tip that the accused was planning to illegally buy a restricted firearm, over capacity magazines and ammunition. Leonidas George Kapsalis has been charged with: Attempted Possession of a Firearm while Unauthorized Possession of a Prohibited Device Attempted Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized Attempted Possession of a Restricted Firearm with Ammunition Attempting to Import a Restricted Firearm
HALIFAX Halifax Regional Police has charged two men from Halifax with multiple weapons offences in relation to an ongoing investigation. Around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, investigators from the Guns and Gangs Unit of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division, along with members of the HRP Emergency Response Team, stopped a vehicle on Cobequid Road in Lower Sackville, N.S. During the stop, investigators seized a handgun and ammunition. Vernon Washington Brown, 20, and Erich William Heckel, 20, are scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court on Wednesday to face the charges. Both men are facing several charges, including: Careless handling of a firearm