Police Arrest South Vancouver Man After Stand Off

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Emergency Response Team members arrest a man following a standoff in South Vancouver.

SOUTH VANCOUVER – A police standoff sparked by reports that an armed man was holed up in a home in South Vancouver ended with an arrest on Tuesday.

Emergency Response Team members surrounded a home on Fraser Street near 63rd Avenue for hours early Tuesday morning before a man inside gave himself up peacefully at around 7:30 a.m., reported CTV news.

The man was unarmed and officers did not find weapons inside the home. There is no information yet on what the dispute was about.

Police closed a stretch of Fraser Street during the standoff as a precaution, but the busy commuter route was reopened before 8 a.m.