Armed man arrested at Craigmore
Where: Yorktown Road, Craigmore, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
A man was arrested following a disturbance at Craigmore this afternoon.
About 3pm on Tuesday 29 September, police received calls from the public regarding a man acting erratically and waving around a sword in the carpark of a Yorktown Road shopping centre.
Northern District police immediately responded and confronted the armed man who was peering through car windows. The man refused officers directions to put the weapon down and attempted to run off but he was quickly chased down and arrested.
Officers recovered the weapon which was found to be a toy sword and sheath.
A 30-year-old man from Elizabeth Downs was charged with aggravated affray, carrying an offensive weapon and resisting arrested. He was refused bail and will appear in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court tomorrow.
— SA PoliceCrime in the Playford council area
Playford is a council area in South Australia with about 115,790 residents. It has a Crime Score 74 out of 100 (high), 45th of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (85th percentile), break-ins (83rd percentile), homicide (81st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 74.
- Violent
- 2,203 per 100k
- Property
- 7,508 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 973 per 100k
- Theft
- 3,290 per 100k
See the full Playford crime profile
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