Arrest Made After 19 Years
Friday, January 13, 2012 @ 3:11 PM
Prince George, B.C. – It may be a cliché, but a case this week would support the phrase “The Mounties always get their man”.
In this case, there was a 19 year gap between the initial incident and an arrest, but none the less, an arrest has been made, charges have been laid.
Here’s the story.
Earlier this week, RCMP officers in Prince George executed a search warrant on an Oak Street residence. Inside the home, officers found two men and a small quantity of marijuana.
Police computer checks on the men revealed one had an arrest warrant dating back to 1993.
39 year old Randell Metro Purych was escorted back to the Prince George detachment where Staff Sergeant Tom Bethune spoke with him. Bethune had been the initial investigating officer when that arrest warrant was issued in early ’93.
Bethune was a Constable back then. It was March 1993 when Bethune responded to a report of a crash at the intersection of Norwood Street and Village Avenue. When he arrived on the scene Bethune found a vehicle had run through a stop sigh and hit an un occupied parked car. No one was hurt.
Bethune had approached the vehicle and spoke with the driver. The driver admitted to driving the car and gave a name that later turned out to be false. Bethune then started an impaired driving investigation which saw the driver return to the detachment where he provided two breath samples. Each registered more than 2 and a half times the legal limit.
Purych never showed up for court and an arrest warrant was issued and has remained on file all these years until he was picked up this week at the Oak Street home.
Purych has spent more of the last 19 years in Medicine Hat Alberta.
When asked what he thought about seeing Purych after all these years, S/Sgt. Bethune stated "When I saw him in the cell, I thought he had aged a lot. He was probably thinking the same thing about me".
Purych is being held in custody. He has been charged with Impaired Driving and failing to appear.
Comments
Too funny! Glad the guy got caught after all.
The past has finally caught up with this individual since he did not deal with it back then. By the looks of things, he is still a crack head of sorts.
If it took 19 years and only by a fluke of nature he was caught I would think not a lot of effort was put in by the RCMP to locate the individual over the years.
Why put effort into finding these kind of people ????? The Judges we have will slap his fingers and he could get another one in a few days…our justice system only hurts the innocent people and tax payers… and this city has the worest judges , thats why Prince George is # 1 on the crime list in Canada.
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