{"id":29740,"date":"2014-10-24T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29740"},"modified":"2014-10-24T21:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:00:01","slug":"halifax-police-determine-gun-incidents-in-citys-downtown-are-not-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/24\/halifax-police-determine-gun-incidents-in-citys-downtown-are-not-related\/","title":{"rendered":"Halifax police determine gun incidents in city\u2019s downtown are not related"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9201\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9201\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HALIFAX\u2014Halifax police have ruled out a connection between a gun found on a public bus and the reported sighting of a man possibly carrying a concealed weapon.<\/p>\n<p>A 25-year-old man was arrested and an unloaded, sawed-off shotgun was recovered from a bus on Thursday, hours after police received a report of someone walking along a downtown street with what appeared to be a rifle wrapped in black fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they\u2019ve determined the incidents are not related and their investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken into custody without incident after police say he allegedly left a gun on the bus and walked down Argyle Street.<\/p>\n<p>He is due in provincial court today on multiple charges, including possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and carrying a concealed weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there were no threats made to anyone and no shots were fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX\u2014Halifax police have ruled out a connection between a gun found on a public bus and the reported sighting of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}