An investigation at a Victoria Avenue motel has ended peacefully, following a tense standoff that began early Monday morning.
Regina police believed that suspects being sought in connection with a stabbing and robbery early Monday morning in the Fillmore area barricaded themselves in the Coachman Inn motel.
A 29-year-old male was taken into custody earlier this morning but police believed there were other suspects still inside one of the motel rooms.
However, when police eventually forced their way into the motel room there was no one inside.
Rusty Smith, a man who was staying at the Coachman Motor Inn, says he heard yelling around 3 or 4 a.m. but didn’t think anything of it.
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At around 7 a.m. a call came to his room, telling him to get dressed and come out with his hands up.
When he emerged from the building, Smith was approached by police officers with guns who asked him questions. Following the interrogation, Smith was told to go to a nearby coffee shop and to not come back for a while because officers could be there all day.
In May 2010 the Coachman Inn was the scene of another police standoff where an armed and wanted man barricaded himself in a motel room. After eight hours, the man as well as a woman who was also inside the room walked out of the building without force and into police custody.
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