Police said they began receiving calls about 1:45 p.m. about the incidents in the 2100-block of Duggan Road, followed by numerous reports of a car being driven erratically
A man was arrested in Nanaimo on Monday after reports that someone was breaking windows with a machete to get into homes, had assaulted people and had stolen a vehicle.
Police, who said they began receiving calls around 1:45 p.m, said they were told the man ran from there to Davies Road, where he attacked and wounded a man in his driveway before chasing the man and his wife, then demanding the keys to their car and stealing it. The driver managed to keep going along Terminal Avenue before turning onto Albert Street and losing control, police said.That was followed by reports from 911 callers that a man in the parking lot at Port Place Mall on Commercial Street was trying to break into vehicles and fighting with people.
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