BELLINGHAM, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – A man faces a litany of charges after police say he threatened a convenience store customer with a knife.

Bellingham Police Lt. Claudia Murphy says officers were called to the incident on 36th Street on the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 4.

Officers were told the man had threatened a customer with a knife, specifically leaving a market while swinging the opened knife close to the victim.

The man began to walk away from the officers despite being told he couldn’t leave. He proceeded to head into traffic near the Samish Way overpass and fell to the ground in the road where officers managed to handcuff him.

Upon booking into the Whatcom County Jail, officers found containers with a substance that looked like methamphetamine.

He faces five charges related to the weaponry, the potential drugs, theft and running away from law enforcement.

Another woman was arrested weeks after a robbery at a Bellingham grocery store.

Murphy says that the suspect was first wanted for an incident on Dec. 19.

Officers were dispatched to Woburn Street after a store’s Loss Prevention Officer (LPO) was threatened with a knife. Murphy says the suspect had flashed the knife at the employee when they attempted to take her backpack.

On Jan. 4, officers responded to a call on W. Bakerview Road, where the suspect had assaulted another LPO because he tried to stop her from digging in a trash can.

Murphy adds that the suspect punched the employee in the face.

When officers arrested her for the assault, they discovered she had an existing warrant for her arrest and booked her into the Whatcom County Jail on $75,000 bail.