A 29-year-old man is facing charges of weapon possession, obstruction and resisting arrest after a confrontation with Saskatoon police resulted in the use of a Taser in the 1400 block of 20th Street West.
Police responded to a complaint of a man with a golf club trespassing in an apartment building at roughly 8:20 a.m. on Sunday.
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Officers said when they arrived the man was unco-operative and combative, resulting in the use of a stun gun by police to subdue the suspect.
The man will remain in custody until he appears in front of a justice of the peace on Sunday evening.
No one was injured.
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