{"id":366136,"date":"2025-11-09T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:06:10","slug":"nanaimo-rcmp-respond-to-armed-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366136\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanaimo RCMP respond to armed individual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before 5 p.m. Saturday, Nanaimo RCMP says the situation with an armed individual has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Const. Gary O\u2019Brien, Nanaimo RCMP told CHEK \u201cSituation resolved,\u201d adding that the individual had been \u201capprehended under the Mental Health Act and transported to hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien says a search warrant is being prepared, allowing members to enter the home \u201cand search for the possibility of a firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, emergency crisis management teams were responding to an armed individual in a residential neighbourhood near Terminal Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told CHEK that at around 11:20 a.m. Saturday, while riding the bus, she observed several black police vehicles near Terminal Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>Const. Gary O\u2019Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesperson told CHEK that RCMP Emergency Response Teams (ERT) and crisis management teams were on scene on a residential street near Departure Bay dealing with an armed individual.<\/p>\n<p>Island Health crisis management spokesperson Tyler Hooper also confirmed the active police matter but had no further comments.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP\u2019s ERT members are <a href=\"https:\/\/rcmp.ca\/en\/bc\/police-services\/emergency-response-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highly trained<\/a> and are brought in to support major cases that are cross-jurisdictional, to coordinate operations across municipal boundaries and to provide expert advice to fellow police on weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/author\/lbrowncheknews-ca\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cropped-Erin-Haluschak-400-x-450-80x80.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLiz Brown joined CHEK News in the fall of 2024. Over the years, she has worked with the National Film Board, CBC Radio, the Chetwynd Echo Newspaper, NowMedia and contributed to print and online features&#8230;.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/author\/lbrowncheknews-ca\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Liz Brown\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just before 5 p.m. Saturday, Nanaimo RCMP says the situation with an armed individual has been resolved. Const.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":366137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-366136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115518006098688174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}