A man is in custody after he allegedly threw a suspicious substance at a front-desk clerk at the Coquitlam RCMP detachment this morning.
Assistant fire chief of operations Greg Senior told The Tri-City News on scene the man had entered the Guildford Way building at around 10:30 a.m. Monday and complained about being poisoned; he then pulled out a powder.
About a dozen people from the detachment were evacuated while a Hazmat team was deployed to investigate the potentially hazardous substance.
Coquitlam fire crews were also brought in to assist with the incident and Port Moody Fire/Rescue was placed on stand-by.
No one was injured.
Calls to Coquitlam RCMP were not immediately returned.
More to come....
