A Vancouver man given bail in Vancouver Provincial Court on assault and weapons in September appeared before a judge again Nov. 27 on similar charges.
According to a court information sworn Sept. 5, Akmal Baluch was charged with five offences.
He was charged with assault of another man while having a weapon or imitation weapon on Sept. 4.
He is also charged with possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm without a licence or registration.
Baluch is further alleged that day to have transported or stored a shotgun in a careless manner without safety precautions.
Baluch is also charged with possessing a Remington 870 shotgun while prohibited from doing so.
The fifth charge connected to allegations from that day is that he possessed a shotgun for a dangerous purpose.
On his sixth court appearance Sept. 11, Baluch was granted bail with reporting and no-contact conditions. He was also handed a weapons ban.
November charges
Then, according to a court information sworn Nov. 24, Baluch was alleged to have committed a further six offences alleged to have occurred that day, including breach of a release order by having an imitation firearm.
He was charged with separate counts of assaulting three men while having a weapon or imitation weapon.
Baluch was also charged with possessing a prohibited weapon, device or ammunition or oversized magazine knowing he was not licensed to do so.
And, sixth, he was charge with possessing a firearm, crossbow, prohibited weapon, prohibited device, ammunition, prohibited ammunition or explosive substance or ammunition while prohibited from doing so.
The provincial court database shows Baluch has further court dates Nov. 28-29. He appears to be in custody currently.
