Psychiatric inmate allegedly takes 3 nurses hostage
Jun 21, 2011 | 7:59 AM
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The Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon was the subject of a police investigation Monday after tense hostage-taking Sunday afternoon, according to the StarPhoenix.
An inmate has been transferred to another centre after allegedly barricading himself in a room with three nurses.
By the time correctional officers busted into the office, the inmate had gotten on top of one of the employees and was holding a sharpened toilet brush handle to her throat.
The newspaper reported the inmate was pepper sprayed and taken under control.
