THUNDER BAY – A 23-year-old Thunder Bay man faces multiple charges after an assault on the city’s southside Sunday night.
Thunder Bay Police Service were dispatched to a bar in the 1400 block of Brown Street following reports of an assault on Sunday just before 11:30 p.m.
Police say when officers arrived they learned a male who had been drinking already fled.
Minutes later officers located an individual matching the accused person’s description at the parking lot of a nearby McDonald’s restaurant.
An investigation revealed the accused male had been travelling northbound on Brown Street at a high rate of speed before colliding with a pole and a pickup truck.
The male attempted to flee after coming to a stop in the restaurant parking lot, but an off-duty officer had witnessed the incident and took him into custody.
When officers arrived at the restaurant they arrested the male for impaired operation of a motor vehicle.
Officers learned the accused had been fighting with paramedics and the off-duty officer before the arrest.
Following a search of the vehicle the accused had been driving police located a quantity of suspected crack cocaine and paraphernalia consistent with drug trafficking.
Police arrested 23-year-old Jacob Daniel Wattie charged assault, uttering threats – death or bodily harm, possession of schedule 1 substance for purpose of trafficking, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, operation of a motor vehicle while impaired-alcohol and drugs, failure to comply with demand.
Wattie appeared in court Monday morning and was remanded into custody with future appearance date.
