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A 34-year-old Edmonton man is charged with assaulting a police officer after Mounties say they attempted to stop a “dangerous driver” that rammed a RCMP car Wednesday.
In a Friday news release, Morinville RCMP said officers were responding at 3:28 a.m. to a report of an impaired driver acting erratically swerving at vehicles, passing on the shoulder, and eventually hitting a snowbank along Highway 642 and Highway 28 in Sturgeon County, roughly 62 km northwest of Edmonton.
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Police said officers attempted to pull the truck over when the driver rammed a police car and began “acting erratically waving his arms about.” Police said officers were able to access the truck as it attempted to drive away. Police said the man assaulted officers, who then deployed a Taser and pepper spray, but the man was able to put the truck in drive and attempt to drive away again.
“RCMP, taking into account the danger that the suspect posed to other users of the road, immediately made contact with the suspect vehicle bringing it to a stop,” police said in the news release.
Officers arrested a man and took him into police custody. A firearm was seized after searching the truck, police said.
Eric Steven Brown, 34, an Edmonton resident with no fixed address, is charged with assaulting a police officer, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, flight from police, resisting arrest, four weapons offences, four counts of possession of a firearm contrary to an order, operation of a motor vehicle while prohibited and identity theft.
Brown is scheduled to appear in St. Albert court Monday.
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