A 40-year-old Saskatoon man who allegedly punched a police dog and officer faces numerous charges after evading the police Friday morning.

Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) said in a news release on Friday that just before 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 7, police tried to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle in the 22nd Street West and Avenue South area but the vehicle drove off.

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SPS said that a few minutes later officers found the man and the vehicle parked in the 400 block of 18th Street West. After the driver ran away, a police dog was “deployed.”

When the pol

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