A longtime member of the Ontario Provincial Police is facing multiple charges of assault and uttering threats following what police are describing as a case of road rage in Cambridge.
Waterloo Regional Police say they were notified around 9 p.m. Sunday about the “road rage incident” at a plaza on Dundas Street, near Franklin Boulevard.
“As a result of that altercation, one individual faces two charges of assault and two charges of uttering threats,” WRPS spokesperson Alana Russell told CTV News.
That individual is Rui Pacheco, a sergeant who has spent 19 years with the OPP and is currently based in Wellington County.
Pacheco was not on-duty Sunday night.
Russell says the reason multiple charges of each offence were laid is because there were two people claiming to have been assaulted and threatened by Pacheco.
The OPP has also launched an internal investigation into the incident.
