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<\/a>Saanich police have confirmed the man is from Victoria, but it\u2019s not confirmed as of yet if he is a Camosun student or not.<\/p>\n
An internal email was sent to Camosun employees saying there had been \u201ca minor incident at Lansdowne campus,\u201d but that there was \u201cno cause for alarm\u201d and drew light on the fact that the campus was never actually put on lockdown. Tinis says Camosun informed the public through Facebook, Twitter, and \u201cother emergency communication tools.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saanich Police acting sergeant Jereme Leslie says that what happened on Lansdowne campus was potentially very dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cResponding to the incident yesterday put many people at possible risk including faculty, staff, students at Camosun, and also the general public, as well as our officers arriving to, possibly, an emergency situation,\u201d says Leslie.<\/p>\n
Leslie says the man was in violation of section 88 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which details possession of a weapon or an imitation of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo in this particular set of circumstances we felt there was quite a danger to the public,\u201d says Leslie. \u201cHaving an individual on campus openly carrying what appears to be a very real firearm, that can cause quite a concern, obviously, and that\u2019s quite dangerous to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leslie says the man will appear in court in mid-December.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to be recommending one charge of having possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose,\u201d says Leslie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man was arrested on Camosun College\u2019s Lansdowne campus on October 31 for carrying a fake firearm as part of his Halloween costume, college employees and the Saanich police have confirmed. Camosun College communications\/marketing officer Michelle Tinis says the man had a fake gun and was wearing camouflage. \u201cIt was a 28-year-old male and he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12798,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions\/12798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}