BY VANGUARD NEWSROOM
(POSTED Tuesday, May 24, 2:30 p.m.) There was a lot of commotion in Yarmouth’s downtown shortly after 2 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, May 24, as the RCMP arrested a male who had climbed onto some roofs to evade capture.
Members of the RCMP chased the man into an alleyway between the Registry of Deeds office and the Yarmouth Vanguard office, but lost sight of him. Witnesses shouted and pointed that he had climbed onto a roof.
As the sirens blared from oncoming RCMP vehicles, and people spilled out of downtown buildings onto the street, RCMP officers on John Street and Second Street yelled repeatedly at the man to get off the roof as an RCMP dog barked from the ground. At one point the dog handler picked up the dog and looked as if he was going to put the dog onto the roof. After a few minutes of shouting back and forth the man climbed down a ladder that the RCMP had placed alongside a building.
The man was taken away from the scene in an RCMP cruiser.
The RCMP were not immediately saying much at the scene but Corporal Paul Pittman told the Vanguard that they were still conducting their investigation into an event that had occurred over the weekend, in which a male suspect had entered a residence uninvited that was occupied by two adults and four children. The RCMP wouldn’t confirm if a weapon was involved in that incident, but they said no one was injured. A member of the household had gotten away and called 911. The man was no longer at the residence when the police arrived.
It was unknown at the time of this news posting how the man the RCMP took into custody was related to the ongoing investigation. The RCMP did not release his name.
(NOTE: You can see video of the RCMP ordering the man off of the roof by clicking on the video link at the top of this page.)
