A 47-year-old Vancouver man is facing charges after being caught with a replica handgun at a Burnaby mall Monday afternoon.
Metrotown mall security called police just before 4 p.m. to report a man with a gun in a backpack, according to Burnaby RCMP.
The call sparked a “significant” police response, police said.
By 4:05 p.m., Mounties had found the man in a stairwell near the Real Canadian Superstore.
He was arrested without incident carrying a “very realistic pellet gun,” according to police.
The man, who is known to police, according to Burnaby RCMP, now faces one charge of carrying a concealed weapon and one charge of breaking a probation order.
He had been under conditions not to carry imitation firearms, police said.