The RCMP's tactical unit was called out early Sunday morning after a woman and her baby fled their home following an assault and reported the husband had guns inside the cabin.

The Emergency Response Team then spent approximately five hours evacuating surrounding homes and getting into position before contacting the man. He immediately gave himself up to police peacefully, Whitehorse RCMP Sgt. John Sutherland said today.

No shots were fired during that time and no one was injured.

The wife and one-year-old child had fled the home at 3:30 a.m. Sunday and called police from a neighbour's home. She reported a minor assault, Sutherland said.

Their residence was one of the cabins behind Takhini Gas at the Takhini Hot Springs Road intersection with the North Klondike Highway.

Once the M-Division's tactical unit had finished evacuating the surrounding cabins and were in place, the husband was called.

He was arrested at 10 a.m.

Alcohol was not believed to be a factor in the incident, Sutherland said.

Police found several firearms on the Meadow Lane property, including a handgun and two long-barrelled guns.

A 30-year-old man is facing charges of assault, possessing a weapon dangerous to the public peace and possession of an unregistered restricted firearm.

Four buildings were evacuated, though two were duplexes, leading six families to be removed from their homes for a few hours.

Meanwhile, a local man's Kusawa Lake cabin was cleaned out last week of everything from the generator to the Saran wrap, loaded into a vehicle and driven away.

The cabin's door was forced open between Feb. 29 and last Friday, when the man went to check on his property.

Police will be checking another area cabin with its owner today, though it was unknown at press time this afternoon whether it had suffered a break-in as well.

An estimated $7,000 in kitchen gear, machinery and tools is gone. On the list of missing items is an E3500 Honda generator, a Honda fire pump, a 30-horsepower Suzuki outboard and a 15-horsepower Evinrude outboard, a Sanyo stereo and CDs, a 16-pound splitting maul, a five-pound axe, a long-handled hatchet, two jerry cans full of gas, an old green Johnson chainsaw, a Coleman lantern and nine small bottles of propane.

The thievery didn't end there. Also missing are kitchen items which include spoons, knives, tin foil, barbecue tongs, white scissors and even the Saran wrap.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Whitehorse RCMP at 667-5555 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Meanwhile, a man accused by staff of shoplifting from the Riverdale Super A grocery store Sunday evening received a rough welcoming from one of the employees.

Police were called shortly after 9 p.m. when a witness saw a staff member fighting with a man in the Lewes Boulevard parking lot.

When police spoke to him, he said he'd received a cut on his forehead and a split lip.

Alcohol was a factor, police said.

A witness in a Yukon College dorm called 911 at 7 p.m. Sunday after seeing a man and a woman struggling in a hallway.

The assault, between a couple that had split up, started in a dorm room and spilled out into the foyer, Sutherland told reporters this morning.

A 29-year-old woman was treated for undetermined injuries after being assaulted with a weapon. It's not clear at this point what was used as a weapon.

A 38-year-old man is under investigation for assault.

A snowmobile owner recovered his missing machine early Sunday morning and led police to a man now under investigation for criminal charges.

A resident of Range Road heard her family's snowmobile being started up and driven away at 3:53 a.m., Sutherland said. Shortly afterward, police were called about a snowmachine being driven in the McIntyre subdivision.

Three hours later, a third phone call made its way to police, this time from a man who'd helped the owner follow tracks to Turner Crescent.

Though police won't likely be able to connect the theft to the person the tracks led to, that 22-year-old man is under investigation for breach of probation.

An Inuvik, N.W.T., man is facing charges of mischief and causing a disturbance after a person walked into Northern Smoke Mini Mart on Fourth Avenue and started yelling.

The man was yelling at customers, and when he was asked to leave, he became hostile, said Sutherland.

The man continued to yell and swear, and shattered the front glass door when he punched it.

Police arrested a 33-year-old man and released him on documents to appear in court later.