Three separate incidents that all involved firearms and led to arrests kept police busy in Saskatoon on Thursday.
Three separate incidents that all involved firearms and led to arrests kept police busy in Saskatoon on Thursday.
When they arrived, police saw a man and a woman being restrained on the ground outside a home. Police said that the pair had approached the home’s occupants in the front yard and threatened them with a firearm. After a struggle, the occupants were able to restrain the pair — who were not known to the occupants of the home — and the weapon was later confirmed to be an imitation handgun.
A 17-year-old man was charged with assault with a weapon, pointing a firearm, possession of a weapon for the purpose of an offence, and carrying a concealed weapon, while a 19-year-old woman was charged with assault.
Shortly before 9 p.m., police were called to the area of Broadway Avenue and 10th Street East after receiving a report of a man with a handgun. Officers found a 20-year-old man on the Broadway Bridge with an imitation handgun.
He was charged with carrying of a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon while prohibited.
In the third incident of the night, officers were conducting proactive enforcement in the area of 20th Street West and Avenue D South around 10:30 p.m. when they saw a 26-year-old man who was wanted on warrants.
When police arrested the man, they found a loaded sawed-off rifle and ammunition. He was charged with several firearms-related offences as well as the outstanding warrants.
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