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By Sheldon Spackman

April 2024 Incident

Man sentenced following police tasering incident at local shopping centre

Jul 11, 2024 | 4:09 PM

A man charged following a police tasering incident at Bower Place Shopping Centre this spring has been sentenced to 45 days in jail.

Jamal Ahmad, 38, of Red Deer, was sentenced in Red Deer Court of Justice on July 9, 2024, after pleading guilty to counts of assault a peace officer and mischief obstruction, while a third charge of restricting a peace officer was withdrawn.

Ahmad’s sentence, however, has already been satisfied by time served.

It was on Saturday, April 27, 2024, around 11 a.m., when Red Deer RCMP received a report of an aggressive male refusing to leave Bower Place Shopping Centre.

According to Mounties, the man was said to be acting erratically and spraying himself in the eyes with perfume.

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“After police arrived, the man was refusing to leave the premises,” says Cpl. Troy Savinkoff, Alberta RCMP. “RCMP attempted to arrest the man, then he pulled away and became combative. RCMP then deployed a conducted energy weapon, which was successful and the man was arrested.”

A conducted energy weapon is commonly referred to as a Taser, and RCMP confirm the use of it was successful the second time it was deployed. The first time was not successful.

Police say nobody else was harmed in the incident.

Related: RCMP arrest man after confrontation inside Bower Place

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