RCMP: Don't run with scissors - or threaten people with them
By Lone Sheep Publishing
On Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officers responded to a report of a 47-year-old Alberta man who had cut his hair with scissors in the restroom and refused to pay for his meal before he fled from a business located in the 1200 block of Bay Avenue in Trail, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich.
“The man sat down and ate a meal in the restaurant before retiring to the bathroom for a quick do-it-yourself hair cut,” Wicentowich said. “The staff discovered his impromptu barber shop and asked the man to refrain from cutting his hair in the public restroom, on behalf of other guests.”
He said the man allegedly gestured threateningly with the scissors toward the staff before he fled the restaurant. Police were contacted about the incident. The man was described as wearing a black fedora, brown trench coat, and carrying a sleeping bag and back pack, with a fresh hair cut.
“Officers conducted patrols and located the man matching the description provided walking along Third Avenue near McQuarrie Street,” Wicentowich said. “The officers arrested the man, who initially declined to cooperate with verbal direction provided. The officers feared that the man may still be armed with scissors. After a short, tense stand-off, an officer used his verbal de-escalation techniques to talk the man into cooperation. The man was arrested after a brief struggle.
“A police search incident to the arrest located a knife on his person. A search on a police computer system discovered that the man was prohibited from possessing weapons and had outstanding warrants for his arrest from Alberta.”
Officers took the man into custody and lodged him into the cell block at the Trail Detachment. The man was taken before a judge and remanded into custody.
The 47-year-old Alberta man will remain in custody until he is transported to Alberta to face his outstanding criminal charges.
Love definitely was not in the h-air for this man during Valentine’s Dine-and Dash. Police were easily able to identify him with his new hair cut and being dressed like Carmen Sandiego; however, he was not as hard to find as this 1980s classic computer game thief,
Wicentowich said.
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