Brooks man taken into custody following Riverside standoff
MEDICINE HAT, AB — Residents in Riverside were kept on edge Thursday night, after the Medicine Hat Police Service responded to the second standoff in the last two weeks.
According to police, at approximately 5 p.m., officers were called to the 200 block of Fifth Street Northwest to arrest a 28-year-old man from Brooks on an assault with a weapon warrant.
Police also received information the man could be armed, despite being the subject of a lifetime firearms prohibition.