The man has been charged with breaking and entering, resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer.
A 29-year old Irishman has been charged by police in Regina, the capital of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, after driving a car through the front door of the Scotiabank in the town’s Cathedral neighbourhood.
According to the Regina Leader-Post, Patrick (Paddy) Shannon, a managing partner at Shannon’s Pub and Grill in Regina, appeared in court on Tuesday morning having been charged with breaking and entering, resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer following an incident in the early hours of Monday morning, January 2.
Pic via Facebook/Shannon’s Pub and Grill
According to a statement issued by the Regina Police Service (read in full at the bottom of the page), Shannon drove his vehicle into the front doors of the bank, smashing through them in the process, and then exited the car carrying a firearm.
When an attempt to enter the bank’s vault proved unsuccessful, he then returned to his vehicle and left the scene before he was later accosted by police, who eventually carried out an arrest having been physically assaulted by Shannon.
The Regina Leader-Post report that Shannon appeared in court by closed-circuit television from the Regina Provincial Correctional Centre on Tuesday.
Having learned the Crown was opposed to Shannon’s release, his defence lawyer Barry Nychuk, speaking to the matter on Shannon’s behalf, asked to put the matter over to Wednesday afternoon.
Regina Police Service statement
On January 2, 2017 at approximately 12:40 a.m. police were dispatched to a financial institution on the 2900 block of 13th Avenue for a call of a break and enter.
One male suspect drove his vehicle into the front doors of the Scotia Bank. The vehicle ended up inside of the bank after smashing through the front doors. The lone suspect then exited the car and went deeper into the bank while carrying a firearm. After unsuccessfully trying to gain entrance into the banks vault, the suspect went back into his vehicle and left the scene.
Police officers stopped the vehicle in the 2100 block of Albert Street and were able to arrest the suspect after being physically assaulted by him.
Patrick SHANNON (DOB: 1987-10-04) was charged with break and enter, resist arrest and two counts of assaulting a police officer.
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