Peterborough police deployed a taser gun in the arrest of a man who made threats and threatened people with a knife during a domestic incident Sunday morning.
Around 11 a.m., Peterborough Police Service officers responded to a report of a disturbance at a home in the Sherbrooke St. and Wallis Drive area.
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Officers located the suspect outside the home. He was “remarkably agitated” and yelled at the police to fight him.
It also struck the driver’s side window of a police vehicle, police said.
Officers pulled out a taser gun with the aim of reducing the escalation of the confrontation, but the man did not comply. Instead, he hit a mirror of a vehicle parked in the driveway.
An officer deployed the Taser and the man was arrested.
A 32-year-old Peterborough man was charged with four counts of making threats to cause death or bodily harm: one of the counts listed as spousal, four counts of breach of a parole order, one count of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and a prank under $ 5,000.
He was taken into custody and is scheduled to appear in court in Peterborough on Monday.
The name of the defendant was not released to protect the identity of the victim in the domestic incident, police said.
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