Halton police are on the lookout for a man who pulled a knife on security personnel at Burlington Mall after being stopped for suspected shoplifting.

Police say that around 2:40 p.m. today a security person approached a male inside Hudson’s Bay at the mall as they believed the suspect was carrying bolt cutters, possibly for the removal of security tags on merchandise.

When the security member confronted the suspect the latter produced a pocketknife. The man then ran from the store headed west on Fairview Street.

The suspect is described as black, 30-40 years old. He was wearing shorts, a T-shirt and a baseball cap.