Victoria Police and Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT) have taken one man into custody after an hours long barricade at a suite.
The incident began at around 7 p.m. August 19, when police arrived at a temporary housing facility in the 100-block of Gorge Road East to arrest a man for alleged domestic assault and breach of a release order.
Once on site, police found the man in a suite, but he refused to surrender himself to police.
According to a statement from VicPD, this is when GVERT and Crisis Negotiators were called in and worked several hours to try and take him into custody without further incident.
However in that time, the suspect was reportedly uncooperative, refused to talk to police, and tried to escape the scene to avoid arrest.
GVERT officers then deployed several loud distraction devices and used tear gas to get him out of the suite.
At around 1:30 a.m., the suspect exited the suite and was taken into custody. Police say there were no injuries during the arrest.
The suspect was transported to cells and held to await court, and police say the file remains under investigation.
Anyone who has information on this incident is asked to call VicPD’s non emergency line at (250) 995-7654 and press #1 to speak with the report desk.
To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
