Maple Ridge Walmart evacuated over the weekend due to police incident: RCMP

MAPLE RIDGE – The Maple Ridge Walmart was evacuated over the weekend after Mounties were alerted about a police incident there.

According to a statement from Curtis Harling, media and communications coordinator for the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, police were dispatched to the 11800 block of 224 Street at about 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Responding officers arrived and on scene and learned that an individual had deployed a fire extinguisher inside the Walmart and may have been having a mental health crisis.

Harling says officers evacuated the store and established containment procedures while they tried to de-escalate the situation.

The individual was eventually apprehended under the Mental Health Act with the help of assisting agencies, before being transported to hospital with minor injuries.