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Mounties explain St. Paul County civil emergency

Feb 28, 2017 | 6:25 AM

ST. PAUL, AB – RCMP at St. Paul have charged a 31 year old man with forcible confinement, in addition to assault with a weapon and uttering threats, after an incident that prompted closure of a section of Highway 36 near St Brides late Sunday night.
 
Mounties responded to a call of a man who was possibly armed and barricaded at a residence in the Saddle Lake Cree Nation.
 
They were in continuous contact with the man and woman, who were known to each other. The woman left the residence unharmed around 11 p.m. Sunday, but it would be another eight hours before an emergency response team entered the home to arrest the man without incident.
 
A state of civil emergency that was in place around the area of the incident was removed after 8:30 a.m. on Monday.