REGINA – Two teenage boys are facing charges following a series of incidents in downtown Regina Saturday evening.
Officers were called to the Cornwall Centre area on 11th Avenue at around 8:45 p.m. for reports of a break and enter.
Police say surveillance video showed two suspects breaking into a business and stealing a fire extinguisher, then running across the street and discharging the extinguisher in another business.
Officers arrived at the scene quickly and took a 13-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy into custody, with one suspect allegedly in possession of a knife.
Both teens are charged with break and enter and mischief under $5000, with the older boy facing an additional count of carrying a concealed weapon.
They are both scheduled to appear in Provincial Youth Court on March 8, 2023.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 5, 2023.
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