Court issues arrest warrant
Man facing numerous charges fails to show for court appearance
Awarrant has been issued for the arrest of a 31-year-old man wanted in connection with multiple offences, including assaulting an officer and evading police. The warrant was issued Thursday after Michael Anthony Hahn failed to attend court for a scheduled appearance. The accused had been released a week earlier and his mother named as surety on $1,000 no-cash bail to ensure Hahn obeyed a 24-hour curfew order and attended court. He even promised the judge he would return to plead guilty to several charges.
Court was told Thursday Hahn was supposed to get his affairs in order and then attend court where the Crown and defence would submit a recommendation for a lengthy jail sentence. When Hahn failed to show up, his mother was released as surety and the arrest warrant was issued.
Hahn faces dozens of charges, including possession of stolen property over $5,000, assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, dangerous driving, disqualified driving, driving an uninsured motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle without registration, failing to remain at the scene of a collision, failing to stop for a peace officer and breach of a recognizance.
On Nov. 29 of last year, police responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle along Fairmont Point South. The vehicle, a Hyundai Sonata, had been reported stolen, and when an officer approached the vehicle, the driver was still inside.
The officer approached the vehicle and ordered the driver to step out, but the man sped away, colliding with a parked police car and forcing the officer back to avoid being run over. The vehicle took off down the wrong side of the road and at one point drove onto the sidewalk. The vehicle was found three days later, abandoned in a back alley on the northside.
The same day police responded to a report of another suspicious vehicle, a Chevrolet Malibu, parked in the alley in the 1300 block of St. Arthur Road North, with a man passed out behind the wheel. Police recognized the driver as the man involved in the incident three days earlier, and boxed the vehicle in to prevent it from leaving. The keys were still in the ignition and the driver was woken up and removed from the vehicle.
Police reported the Malibu had been reported stolen, and when police searched the suspect they found the keys for the Hyundai Sonata that had been recovered earlier in the day. The driver displayed signs of impairment by street narcotics, and a crack pipe and drug paraphernalia were recovered from the vehicle. The man was assessed by a drug recognition expert, and bodily fluid samples were collected and forwarded to the RCMP lab for analysis.