A 50-year-old man has been charged with choking and sexually assaulting a woman in Dartmouth on Sunday morning. Halifax Regional Police said they responded to a report of a sexual assault in a building on Alderney Drive around 7:45 a.m.Police said the man approached a woman he did not know and sexually assaulted her. Marcus Stafford Yearwood was scheduled to appear in Dartmouth provincial court on Monday to face charges of sexual assault, choking and breach of a court order. "Any time there's a sexual assault it's very serious. He's due back in Dartmouth provincial court on June 29 at 9:30 a.m. in relation to those charges.

Source: CBC News June 07, 2021 18:56 UTC