Another chainsaw-wielding man arrested, charged in Quebec
Dany Béland faces 6 charges including uttering death threats, assault with a weapon and stalking
For the second time in a week in Quebec, police have arrested and charged a man after an alleged threat involving a chainsaw.
Dany Béland, a 28-year-old from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, appeared in court Friday to face six charges: assault, uttering death threats, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, misdemeanour and stalking.
Police were called Thursday at around 4 p.m. ET in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, about 60 kilometres west of Montreal, after a man and a woman went to a home on Ellice Street to meet with another man.
Provincial police said the couple knocked on his door for a ''business transaction." They were buying goods from him before a fight broke out, and Béland allegedly picked up a chainsaw and used it to intimidate the visitors.
Earlier this week, another man was charged with armed assault after he brandished a chainsaw at a family during an alleged road-rage incident.
Manuel Delisle, who has been suspended from his job as pruner for the Montreal borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to return to court in July.
With files from CBC News