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16/12/2009
Trafford Gun Threat Charge
A man has been charged after a police officer in Manchester was threatened at gunpoint.
John Greenwood, 62, of Lytham Road, Flixton, Trafford is charged with making threats to kill, driving a motor vehicle with excess alcohol, driving while disqualified, affray and using an imitation firearm to resist arrest.
He appeared before Trafford Magistrates' Court yesterday.
At 1pm on Sunday 13 December, a police officer was threatened at gunpoint on Lytham Road in Flixton.
A response officer attended and together she and her colleague managed to overpower the gunman.
The gun was recovered and later found to be a blank-firing pistol.
(PR/KMcA)
John Greenwood, 62, of Lytham Road, Flixton, Trafford is charged with making threats to kill, driving a motor vehicle with excess alcohol, driving while disqualified, affray and using an imitation firearm to resist arrest.
He appeared before Trafford Magistrates' Court yesterday.
At 1pm on Sunday 13 December, a police officer was threatened at gunpoint on Lytham Road in Flixton.
A response officer attended and together she and her colleague managed to overpower the gunman.
The gun was recovered and later found to be a blank-firing pistol.
(PR/KMcA)
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