Police have charged a man allegedly seen walking through Ebb and Flow First Nation carrying a gun over the weekend.
RCMP from Ste. Rose du Lac were called about the armed man around 3:15 p.m. Saturday.
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They say officers used a loudspeaker to tell the man to drop his weapon, but the suspect instead walked away from police and into a nearby bush area.
Police secured the area and, with help from the RCMP’s emergency response team, apprehended the man.
Ste Rose du Lac #rcmpmb & Emergency Response Team apprehended Jacob Levasseur, 23, in Ebb and Flow First Nation on Saturday as he was walking around the area with a firearm. Nobody was injured. He is remanded, facing multiple charges
— RCMP Manitoba (@rcmpmb) May 11, 2021
They say no one was injured.
A 23-year-old man from Ebb and Flow First Nation is now facing multiple charges.
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Police continue to investigate.
Ebb and Flow First Nation is roughly 184 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.
