Date of publication: June 14, 2022 • 15 minutes ago • 2 minutes reading • 29 comments London police arrest four men and seize a loaded pistol, shown here, after a group of men threatened an undercover police officer who parked his vehicle on Marconi Boulevard on Monday . (Photo provided by the police)
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London police seized a loaded pistol and arrested four people after an undercover police officer confronted a group of men in an incident that the top of the city called “incredibly dangerous”.
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A police officer was parked on a plot of land on Marconi Avenue, southeast of Trafalgar and Clarke Streets, at about 1pm on Monday, when four men approached his vehicle and asked to know what he was doing there, police said on Tuesday. One man knocked on the driver’s window while the others circled around the vehicle, police said. “The police officer tried to de-escalate the situation and the suspects threatened him,” said police spokesman Const. said Sandasha Bough. The officer called for a reserve and officers soon arrived and arrested two suspects, both of whom continued to threaten the undercover officer, police said. The other two suspects fled, but police arrested them nearby and confiscated a loaded pistol from one of them, police said.
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Chief Steve Williams took to social media on Tuesday to praise the work of the officers involved. “Another loaded weapon and an incredibly dangerous situation were seized which could have ended much worse if not for the actions of the officers. “Well done,” Williams wrote on Twitter. Many residents at this Marconi Boulevard mansion complex, managed by London Middlesex Housing Corp., say a clash between a London undercover detective and a group of men took place in the complex’s parking lot on Monday afternoon. (Dale Carruthers / The London Free Press) Bentiu Birun Yar, 19, Mohamed Yousuf, 24, Tony Ngor Lueljang Macuei, 26, and Emmanuel Zackaria Lado, 21, all from London, are charged with criminal harassment through threatening behavior. Yar also faces eight other charges, including possession of a restricted weapon, possession of a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon. Yusuf is also accused of threatening to cause death or bodily harm and intimidation by threats of violence. All four men appeared on video Tuesday afternoon in a London courtroom, where they were remanded in custody and scheduled to reappear Wednesday to arrange bail hearings. Bow would not say what the undercover officer was investigating on Marconi Avenue, an east street with a history of armed violence and gang activity. “He was there in connection with an investigation,” he said. Many residents in a Marconi Boulevard mansion complex managed by London and Middlesex Housing Corp. They said the collision took place in a parking lot on the southwest side of the complex and attracted a large police presence. [email protected] Twitter.com/DaleatLFPress
