Nanaimo RCMP respond with guns drawn to Port Place Mall
NANAIMO — A serious police presence was called to the Port Place Shopping Centre for what ended up being a “ridiculous” false alarm.
Cst. Gary O’Brien said a firearms call at the downtown mall came in around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 2.
Officers found two men, one who’d been seen with the firearm in question. It ended up being an unusable pellet gun he’d thrown away into the bushes.
“We treat every call where there’s potential for a firearm as real,” O’Brien said. “It was considered a high-risk situation so they had their service pistols drawn and they were prepared to react to whatever they were faced with.”