The Saskatoon Police Service says officers were dispatched to a report of suspicious activity in the city’s Exhibition neighbourhood around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday after a resident reported unknown persons approaching their home trying to locate a cell phone and one of them had a machete.

While en route to the call police learned the suspects left the area in a taxi so they conducted a traffic stop on a tax in the 600 block of Taylor Street East, which is just off Lorne Avenue.

In a news release police say two men and a woman got out of the vehicle and while one male was released without charges, a 32-year-old man had a machete and an expandable baton. And police say the woman had a loaded, sawed-off rifle and crystal methamphetamine.

He was charged with two counts each of Possession of a Weapon Dangerous to the Public Peace and Carrying a Concealed Weapon while she is facing seven firearm related charges and one charge of possession of methamphetamine.