  The toric code is a simple and exactly solvable example of topological order
realising Abelian anyons. However, it was shown to support non-local lattice
defects, namely twists, which exhibit non-Abelian anyonic behaviour [1].
Motivated by this result, we investigated the potential of having non-Abelian
statistics from puncture defects on the toric code. We demonstrate that an
encoding with mixed-boundary punctures reproduces Ising fusion, and a logical
Pauli-$X$ upon their braiding. Our construction paves the way for local lattice
defects to exhibit non-Abelian properties that can be employed for quantum
information tasks.
