An Ottawa man is facing a number of charges after a Wednesday morning car chase from the Byward Market to Centretown.
Just after 7 a.m. Wednesday, police attempted to stop a vehicle near Cumberland and Murray streets. The driver rammed a police car and fled the scene in the vehicle. A brief pursuit followed, ending at Kent and Lisgar streets, where the suspect was apprehended and an air gun was found inside the vehicle.
Police have charged Keith Pederson, 33, with failure to stop for police, resisting arrest, threatening violence, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm, assaulting a police officer, uttering threats, leaving the scene of an accident and drug possession.
Pederson is scheduled to appear in mental health court on Friday.