Toronto police arrested a 53-year-old man on the Esplanade in downtown Toronto Thursday afternoon and confiscated a chainsaw, sledge hammer, baseball bat, bow and arrow and bottles from his car.
About 40 police on bicycles formed a human fence around the car across the street from the Novotel hotel where striking hotel workers marched.
The arrest didn’t appear to be related to the strike, which started at midnight.
Police stopped a silver Hyundai Elantra on a routine traffic check around 12:30 p.m. and spotted the bow and arrow inside the car, they said. The car had been going west on the Esplanade and had turned up Scott St. when it was stopped.
An hour later, the suspect sat in a Court Services van at the scene, at the Esplanade and Scott St., while police and firefighters pulled items from the car, spread them on the sidewalk and examined them.
The haul also included large bottles, tools and metal rods and a laptop bag as well as three notebooks.
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