A man who initially “panicked” when approached by Niagara Regional Police eventually led officers to box in the vehicle he then fled in and bring a high-risk takedown to a successful end after releasing a police dog.

“It really sounds like a scene from a TV show or a movie,” Judge Cameron Watson told Jonathan Lamontagne in Ontario court of justice in St. Catharines on Thursday.

“You really went big, but you shouldn’t have done any of this.”

The judge noted Jax, a member of the Niagara Regional Police canine unit, could have inflicted much more damage than the single puncture wound Lamontagne sustained.

“As is often the case, the police dog won,” Watson said. “One puncture wound … you are lucky your leg or arm wasn’t torn open by the dog.”

Lamontagne, 24, was sentenced to time served a

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