Police arrest 7 people barricaded inside a Saanich home<\/p>\n
Published 2:05 pm Wednesday, May 27, 2026<\/p>\n
Part of Battleford Avenue was shut down on Tuesday afternoon (May 26) as a heavy police response descended on a Saanich property.<\/p>\n
Saanich police said in a release that officers were responding to a report of a break and enter just before 11 a.m. in the 100 block of Battleford Avenue.<\/p>\n
Officers from the patrol division, the Integrated Canine Service and the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT) responded and established containment around the home.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigators determined that several individuals had entered the residence and were refusing to leave,\u201d said police. \u201cThe incident was subsequently classified as a barricaded subject situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
A total of seven people were arrested.<\/p>\n
The barricade was resolved at approximately 2:30 p.m., with seven individuals being taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n
Police added that their investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrest 7 people barricaded inside a Saanich home Published 2:05 pm Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-698033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}