Update: The Southeast District Emergency Response Team have arrested the male suspect.
Vehicle traffic in the area has been restored except one segment of the involved alley as police continue their investigation.
Original: Cranbrook RCMP is urging residents to avoid the 500 block of 10th and 11th Street South due to an active police incident.
Police say they got a call from a distraught woman at approximately 11 p.m. on Wednesday night reporting an assault that occurred in a vehicle.
She told police the male suspect was in possession of a fire arm and she was no longer with him.
Officers located the vehicle and the lone male suspect in the 500 block of the alley between 10th and 11th Street South.
The alleyway has been contained and adjacent properties have been notified as police continue to negotiate with the suspect.
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