Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2021

File: 21-6468

Victoria, BC – Patrol officers are seeking information after seizing multiple weapons from a temporary sheltering area in Victoria this morning.

At approximately 10 a.m. this morning officers were assisting Victoria Bylaw officers at a temporary sheltering area in a parking lot in the 900-block of Caledonia Avenue, when they were alerted to weapons found in an abandoned tent at that location. The weapons included two replica firearms and a wooden bat with nails and blades affixed to it. Officers seized the weapons and are asking to speak to anyone with information. Photographs of the weapons are included below.

This file remains under investigation. If you have any information about this incident, please call the VicPD Report Desk at (250) 995-7654, extension 1. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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