The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) arrested a man on Tuesday night after an 11-hour incident involving a significant deployment of officers at a hotel.
According to info shared by the department on Wednesday morning, the incident began at the Regal Hotel on Granville Street at around 11:30 a.m.
Police responded to a report of someone throwing objects from a third-floor window onto the Granville Street sidewalk.
After officers arrived on scene, the man barricaded himself inside the room.
The department said that “more than 50 officers” were deployed, which included crisis negotiators and specially trained tactical officers from the Emergency Response Team in efforts to negotiate the man’s surrender.
Photos of the incident were shared on social media in response to a VPD post on X about traffic closures in the area.
#VanTraffic Vancouver Police have closed down Granville Street from Nelson to Helmcken. A man is throwing objects outside the window of a residential building to the street below. Crisis negotiators and emergency response teams are on scene and attempting to resolve the…
— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) January 27, 2026
While VPD officers responded at 11:30 a.m., the incident didn’t wrap up till after 10 p.m. that night. The man was arrested at 10:10 p.m. after Vancouver police officers were able to gain entry to the hotel suite in which the man was barricaded.
The VPD said that the 48-year-old man was wanted under the Mental Health Act at the time of his arrest and has since been taken to hospital for treatment.