Vancouver police say they arrested a man who tried to hide from officers in a dumpster after he allegedly threatened people in the city’s Kitsilano area on Sunday.
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) said officers used a police dog and a beanbag gun in the arrest of the man, who had reportedly been in people’s backyards in the area of the Arbutus greenway and was “armed with a pair of gardening shears.”
After officers responded to reports of a suspicious man around noon Sunday, they said they found the suspect in a lane near Arbutus Street and West 11th Avenue, but he fled into a “compound” behind a business and was found at the bottom of a dumpster beneath “several layers of garbage.”
Police say the suspect, who still had the gardening shears and refused to surrender, was bitten by a police dog and hit with beanbag rounds during the arrest.
The VPD said the 31-year-old man was taken into custody and treated for injuries.
Police said he was already wanted provincewide on a warrant for assault, uttering threats and other charges, and are now recommending additional charges related to mischief, weapons possession and breaching bail conditions.