A man was arrested and taken to hospital under the Mental Health Act after a seven-hour standoff in Vancouver.
Officers were called to the area of Parker and St. George streets in East Vancouver around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday for a domestic dispute involving a lot of yelling, police said.
When officers began speaking to the two people involved, a man refused to exit a motor home.
Witnesses reported seeing heavily armed officers and an armoured police vehicle.
Negotiators and the emergency response team were called out.
A police negotiator could be heard trying to communicate with a man apparently holed up inside a vehicle parked outside of a business on Parker Street.
Police determined the man was wanted on a Canada-wide immigration warrant, as well as a warrant for uttering threats.
Shortly after 1:30 a.m. Thursday he was arrested and appeared to be unconscious when officers took him out of the motor home.
- Toronto Pearson gold heist: Ontario man arrested at airport after arriving from India
- Man charged in surfer deaths told girlfriend he killed ‘3 gringos,’ court hears
- ‘I believe they’re looking for me’: Man arrested after triple stabbing in Mississauga, Ont.
- Drone used to smuggle $250,000 worth of contraband into N.B. prison, police say
Comments