Guysborough County District RCMP have laid firearms and assault charges following an
investigation in Fox Island.
Police say on January 4th, officers received a report of an assault that had taken place last July, at a Fox Island home on Highway 16. Police learned that a man had assaulted and threatened a woman and was in also illegally in possession of firearms.
On January 6th, RCMP officers searched a home and arrested a man. Police seized three rifles, a shotgun, a pellet gun, ammunition and soft body armour.
A 49-year-old Fox Island man has been released on conditions and will face charges of Assault, Uttering Threats, five counts of Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm and five counts of Unsafe Storage of a Firearm.
He will appear in Antigonish Provincial Court on February 1st.