CALGARY Charges have been laid against a 54-year-old man in connection to an incident where a firearm was allegedly pointed at officers in Medicine Hat on Monday. Dale Melbourn has been charged with two counts of possession of a weapon, two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of pointing a firearm, and a breach of previous release conditions. Reports came in at around 9:30 a.m. of a male in distress who was suspected of posing a danger to himself and others and that he may have been armed with a weapon. At approximately noon, members of the Medicine Hat Police Service located Melbourn in an industrial area near the intersection of Smelter Avenue and Factory Street S.E.