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RCMP raid trailer park in high-risk operation

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A high-risk police operation at a trailer park in the city that shut down a nearby elementary school and businesses ended peacefully with one man arrested, RCMP said Saturday.

Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said there was a significan­t police presence at the G & M Trailer Park on Friday, in an incident involving a suspect who was believed to be armed.

Police didn’t say whether the man was facing any charges.

Shelkie said the trailer park remained closed for a police investigat­ion Saturday, but surroundin­g streets were reopened.

But the day before, Mounties instructed parents not to pick up their kids from a nearby school. Instead, Shelkie said students would be bused to a local bridge where parents could pick them up. Residents of the trailer park were told to remain inside and to lock their doors and windows.

Nicole Calver, a receptioni­st at the First Nations Tax Commission, said she heard sirens at about 11 a.m. on Friday and looked out the window to see about 15 RCMP vehicles head into a trailer park across the street.

“That’s where we saw the squad vehicle ram a green truck,” she said. “We did hear, we did witness six gunshots and we saw people running around, I think a squad team … running around the trailer park after that.”

The nearby Sk’elep School of Excellence went into lockdown, Calver said, adding she heard the announceme­nt from the school’s speaker.

People in her office had been instructed to stay away from windows and not to go outside, she said.

Calver said she was listing to radio reports “to plan our routes home, if we can get out of here.”

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