Early Morning Assault: Taxi Driver Injured

On November 20^th at 2:43AM a taxi driver reported one of his drivers was hit by a female suspect with an unknown item/weapon and is bleeding. Ambulance requested near the 3100 block of Victoria Avenue.

A female had gotten into the cab and demanded the driver’s cell phone, upon failing to give her the device she hit him over the head with a blunt object. Caller gave direction suspect went.

A secondary caller phoned in and stated an unknown female had rang their doorbell and was now in the residence asking them to call a cab for her. Upon finding out police were called female fled from the home and banged on a neighbor’s door on Hemlock Crescent. Suspect was located by police under a vehicle and taken into custody. A folding knife was on her person.

19-year-old female held in detention cells with a court date in the morning on November 20^th, 2024.

Injured cab driver attended Brandon Hospital’s Emergency for non-life-threatening injuries.