Vancouver – Vancouver Police have arrested a man who barricaded himself inside the Regal Hotel on Granville Street during an 11-hour incident on Tuesday.
VPD responded around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, after a report of someone throwing objects from a third-floor window onto the Granville Street sidewalk.
When officers arrived, the man barricaded himself inside the room.
Vancouver Police deployed more than 50 officers, including crisis negotiators and specially trained tactical officers from the Emergency Response Team, to negotiate the man’s surrender.
The suspect was arrested at approximately 10:10 p.m., after officers gained entry into the suite where he was barricaded. The 48-year-old man was wanted under the Mental Health Act at the time of arrest and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
