Police responding to reports of a man chasing two Shelbourne Street liquor store employees with a knife Thursday morning used a police dog to locate a man in nearby bushes, and arrested him.
A discarded knife was located.
The incident began when staff asked the man to leave just after the liquor store in the 3200-block of Shelbourne Street opened at 9 a.m., Saanich police said. The man became agitated and started assaulting an employee.
Police said the man bit an employee who tried to intervene, then threatened both with a knife before leaving.
The employee who was bitten was taken hospital and the other was treated at the scene by paramedics.
A 35-year-old man known to police is facing charges of assault causing bodily harm, breach of conditions to not possess weapons and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
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