Man charged after showing taxi driver a knife to avoid paying fare in St. John's, NL

RNC PHOTO BY RNC Article content A 36-year-old man was charged Tuesday night with carrying a concealed weapon — a knife — after he exited a taxi without paying for the fare. Article content At about 10 p.m. members of RNC Operational Patrol Services responded to a weapons offence call in the area of University Avenue in St. John’s. Article content Article content Information was received that several males had exited a taxi without paying and one of them presented an edged weapon. Article content Officers located the males a short distance away and arrested the male believed to have the edged …