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Efforts to comply with a city clean-order left an employee at Lombardy Mobile Home Park shaken Friday afternoon after an upset tenant pulled out what appeared to be a firearm. Property manager Lucienne Hannah said the incident occurred around 2 p.m.

Efforts to comply with a city clean-order left an employee at Lombardy Mobile Home Park shaken Friday afternoon after an upset tenant pulled out what appeared to be a firearm.

Property manager Lucienne Hannah said the incident occurred around 2 p.m. as she was helping to hand out eviction notices.

Prince George RCMP confirmed Friday that a woman was arrested and in custody after waving around a replica pellet pistol at the mobile home park and that charges were pending.

Hannah said she was driving park manager Kal Sall and operating as a witness to the eviction notices when the incident occurred.

"My boss gave her the notice and she promptly tore it up and started hollering and screaming and cussing and swearing and (saying) 'you can't do this' and 'it's illegal' and on and on and on," Hannah said. "I thought she was just tearing the paper up and throwing it aside and the next thing I know she's up with a gun pointed at me."

Hannah, who has served as the property manager since last April, said she's never experienced anything like it before - and hopes to never experience it again.

"I froze. I didn't know what to do," Hannah said. "My boss just said, 'don't say anything, just let it go, let's go.' And she promptly turned around and went back into her yard and I drove away."

Park management had about 30 eviction notices to serve to tenants who refuse to allow them permission to come on to their property.

In early July, city council approved a remedial action order requiring the demolition of 16 derelict trailers and to complete overall clean up on the site by July 20. On Monday, Lombardy management appeared before council asking for a reconsideration of the order which was not given.

"So we have given them (tenants)

30 days notice for just cause of not cleaning up their yards or removing vehicles or whatever it is the city is after us for," Hannah said.