RCMP's Emergency Response Team Called To Port Moody Home, Man Hospitalized After Police Incident

Darpan News Desk , 17 Aug, 2018 12:26 PM

The Emergency Response Team (ERT) were called to Port Moody, where police was engaged in a standoff with a distraught man.

Police said a distraught man locked himself inside a house on Aspenwood Drive at around 5:50 a.m. and called 911, and that officers had reason to believe he might have a gun.

The Port Moody Police Department said the incident is ongoing, but that there is no threat to the general public.

Emergency Response Team was dispatched to the home, and the individual was eventually taken to hospital. Police would not comment on why he was hospitalized.

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