Waasis man rammed cop cruiser, court hears
Austin Riley Page, 31, sentenced Tuesday to more than 2 years in prison for several crimes
A Waasis man cornered in a Fredericton cul-de-sac while pursued by police in a stolen car assaulted an officer by ramming a police cruiser in a desperate but failed bid to escape, court heard Tuesday.
Austin Riley Page, 31, of Crown Court, appeared in Fredericton provincial court - in custody and in person - for sentencing for a long list of offences committed between September 2023 and April.
He’d previously pleaded guilty to numerous charges.
The most serious offences occurred April 30, said prosecutor Kyle Horsman, when Fredericton police officers spotted a suspicious Ford Focus hatchback that turned out to have been reported as stolen.