Manitoba RCMP Arrests Man After Forced Confinement at The Pas Hospital – Winnipeg | The Canadian News

A 21-year-old is being detained after an incident at St. Anthony Hospital in El Pas, where an employee was held against his will by an armed suspect.

RCMP said they were called to the hospital around 9 p.m. Friday after a report of an agitated man inside. When officers arrived on the scene, the suspect fled, police said, and after a brief chase on foot he was arrested.

Police seized a gun, a stolen ID pass and a key to the hospital’s narcotics room. According to their investigation, the suspect was holding the victim so that he could gain access to safe rooms at the hospital.

The 17-year-old victim was not physically injured in the ordeal.

The defendant faces a long list of charges, including forcible confinement, resisting a law enforcement officer, assault with a weapon, intentional burglary, robbery with an offensive weapon, making threats, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of obtained property $ 5,000 misdemeanor, mischief, and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

Police said he was also wanted on unrelated arrest warrants for assault that caused bodily harm and did not comply with probation.

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