22-year-old arrested after shotgun, ammunition found in backpack

A Saskatoon man is facing firearms related charges after a sawed-off shotgun was found in a bag he was carrying alongside ammunition and bear spray.
At roughly 5:10 p.m. on Tuesday members of the Saskatoon Police Service’s Guns and Gangs unit saw a wanted man riding a bike near the intersection of 20th Street West and Avenue W South, according to a police news release.
When police called the man’s name, he fled on the bike, abandoning the bike and a backpack in the 200 block of Whitn