Saskatoon Police Service officers had to resort to using a conducted energy weapon to quell a domestic dispute as well as an assault on one of the officers Thursday.

At about 10:15 a.m. Thursday morning, police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance involving a man wanted on criminal code warrants at a residence in the 1100 block of Avenue W North. When officers arrived, the suspect was fleeing the area and when confronted by police, he deployed a can of bear spray on one of the officers before the C-E-W was used to take him into custody.

The suspect is a 28-year-old from Saskatoon and has been charged with assaulting a police officer with a weapon, carrying a weapon dangerous to public peace, unauthorized carry of a concealed weapon and failing to comply with court-imposed conditions. The deployment of the C-E-W will be reviewed according to policy while the officer who had the bear spray used on him received non-life threatening injuries consistent with the effects of bear spray.