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Police have charged a woman for an assault on a Halifax Transit driver last night.
At approximately 9:20 p.m. police responded to a disturbance on a Halifax Transit bus that was parked in the 5400 block of Spring Garden Road.
A Halifax Transit driver asked a female passenger to leave the bus after she had caused a disturbance on the bus. The female passenger then assaulted the bus driver.
The woman threatened and assaulted the responding officers. She was taken into custody and held to appear in Halifax Provincial Court today.
Sophia Downey, 29, of Dartmouth has been charged with:
- Assault causing bodily harm
- Property damage
- Causing a disturbance
- Uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death
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