RCMP lay sex, firearms charges against gun-wielding Nunavut man

A Cape Dorset man, 27, faces nine charges after someone sexually assaulted a teen girl at gunpoint and threatened other people with a firearm. (FILE PHOTO)

The RCMP have laid nine criminal charges against a Cape Dorset man after a series of incidents in which a teenage girl was sexually assaulted and other people were threatened with a firearm.

Police arrested the man at a local residence shortly after they received multiple complaints about an intoxicated person who was pointing a gun at people.

A Cape Dorset resident who does not wish to be identified said the man was “thinking of going into a gambling house to steal the money but was not allowed in.”

After that, the man found a teenaged girl, threatened to shoot her if she refused to have sex with him, and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint, the Cape Dorset resident said.

A 27-year-old man faces nine charges:

• one count of sexual assault with a weapon;

• using a firearm in the commission of an offence;

• three counts of pointing a firearm;

• one count of careless use of a firearm;

• one count of resisting arrest;

• one count of unlawfully being in a dwelling house; and,

• once count of uttering threats.

The accused man remains in custody and is scheduled to appear at the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit Oct. 27.