Jun 23, 2015 2 min read

A Canton Township man was arrested early Tuesday on separate warrants charging him with pointing a semiautomatic handgun at drivers before fleeing in a vehicle.

In one of the cases, Washington police accuse Zack Sadler, 30, of firing a round, which missed a driver about 7:20 p.m. June 8 as their vehicles passed each other on Walnut Street, court records state.

The next day, a pregnant woman with her 5-year-old child told police a man later identified as Sadler pulled up next to her vehicle and pointed a handgun at her while she sat in a vehicle parked in a lot at 125 W. Beau St. about 9:30 p.m., court records indicate.

The woman told police he asked her if she knew any men from Louisiana, using a racial slur, and if she did, “let them know I’m coming for them” before he drove off, the affidavit states.

The second victim, Miguel Mitchel, accused Sadler of pointing a weapon at him from the driver’s side window.

Police received a second complaint involving the Ford Explorer the suspect was allegedly driving June 8 and found it parked outside his residence with a bullet shell casing inside the vehicle.

Sadler, of 1520 Jefferson Ave., was charged with aggravated assault, a convict prohibited from possessing a firearm, reckless endangerment, making terroristic threats and carrying a firearm without a license. Sadler was also being detained on a federal probation violation.

He spent 60 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2009 to illegal possession of a firearm, and then again to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to escape from federal custody in November 2013.

He was sent to Washington County jail on $60,000 bond set in the recent cases by District Judge Mark Wilson.