A citizen who threatened people with a knife in the Shaykhontohur district of Tashkent has been held accountable. The Tashkent city Police Department's press service reported this.
Videos depicting a man raising his hand against a young child in an elevator and threatening citizens with a knife on the street have spread on social networks.
According to the Police Department, on April 18 at around 19:40, a report was received by the Tashkent city Police Protection Department that the “panic button” had been pressed at one of the parking lots located on Sebzor street in the Shaykhontohur district.
Immediately arriving at the scene, the law enforcement officers identified that H.S., born in 1958, while in a state of intoxication, had threatened the parking lot guard and other citizens with a kitchen knife, violating public order. Then he fled the scene and entered one of the multi-storey buildings. As a result of prompt measures taken, the citizen H.S. was detained and taken to the Police Department.
H.S. did not cause physical injury to anyone with the knife.
In relation to H.S., administrative protocols have been formalized under the Articles 183- (minor hooliganism), 194- (disobeying the lawful demands of a police officer) and 185-2 (carrying bladed weapons or objects that can be used as cold arms) of the Administrative Responsibility Code.
The collected documents were submitted to the Shaykhontohur district court for criminal matters. The court sentenced this individual to 10 days of administrative detention.
