Emergency alert called off after armed man in Cape Breton located by police

CITYnews halifax / By Dan Ahlstrand

Police in Cape Breton are reporting that the subject of an emergency alert is now in police custody and there is no longer a threat to public safety in that region of the province.

Kenneth Scott MacPhee was said to have threatened to harm specific individuals known to him and was believed to have a firearm.

Authorities had issued an emergency alert just after 4 a.m.