A 44-year-old Lindsay man is facing assault charges after he seriously injured an intruder in his apartment early Monday morning (August 18).
At around 3:20 a.m. on Monday, Kawarthas Lakes police responded to an apartment on Kent Street in Lindsay after a report of an altercation between two men.
After arriving on scene, officers learned that the apartment’s resident had awoken to find another man inside his apartment.
An altercation between the resident and the intruder ensued, with the intruder receiving serious life-threatening injuries. The intruder was transported to Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay and later airlifted to a Toronto hospital.
As a result of the investigation, police arrested and charged the resident of the apartment, a 44-year-old Lindsay man, with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
The accused man was released from custody with a future court date.
The intruder, a 41-year-old Lindsay man, was already wanted by police at the time of the incident for unrelated offences.
As a result of the investigation, he has also been charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, break, enter and theft, mischief under $5,000, and failure to comply with probation.
The accused man will be held in custody pending a bail hearing when he is released from hospital.
