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Two men have been arrested following an attempted armed robbery Tuesday morning.
At around 6:30 a.m., police were called to a business in the 3300 block of Fairlight Drive.
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When they arrived, officers learned that two men allegedly pointed a firearm at an employee, demanding money.
The employee refused, and the suspects fled in a vehicle.
“Responding officers quickly located the vehicle in a nearby parking lot with two men matching the suspect descriptions inside,” Saskatoon police said in a statement.
The men were arrested without incident and an imitation firearm was found inside the vehicle.
Two 18-year-old men were charged with attempted robbery and using a firearm to commit robbery.
One of the men also had an outstanding warrant.
Woman bear sprayed when leaving washroom
Police are investigating a case where a woman was bear sprayed while using a washroom on Tuesday night. The woman was taken to hospital.
Police were called to the 100 block of Spadina Crescent East around 10 p.m. When they arrived, they found a female victim “suffering from the effects of bear spray,” the report read.
The woman had been using the washroom when two unknown women confronted the victim.
When the woman left the washroom, an unknown man entered and sprayed her with bear spray and hit her in the head before all three suspects fled.
