High Risk Takedown Goes Without Incident

Thursday, July 22, 2010 04:21 PM

Prince George, B.C. - A senior RCMP officer with 33-years on the job is being credited with the relatively smooth conclusion to what could have been a dicey situation this afternoon...

Police were on the look-out after Prince George Yamaha reported a truck pulled into their business and made off with a brand new trailer and two jet skis around noon.

Constable Gary Godwin says the Staff-Sergeant was out of the office on administrative business when he noticed the stolen vehicle beside him at the intersection of Highways 16 and 97. Constable Godwin says the officer carried on in the direction he was travelling, but did pull back around. The officer was in an unmarked unit and kept his lights off as he followed the truck "in stealth mode" through the busy Highway 16-West corridor.

Godwin says, once out of the heavy traffic area, two marked cars pulled up to box in the stolen vehicle near the intersection with Marleau Road, and they performed a high-risk takedown as other officers arrived on-scene.

Godwin is crediting the Staff-Sergeant for "very good police work"...saying his surveillance avoided what could have easily escalated into a high-speed chase through an extremely busy area of the city.

A 47-year-old Chetwynd man was arrested without incident. The jet skis and trailer - valued at $34-thousand dollars - have been recovered, as has the truck, which was reported stolen out of Fort St. John back on July 13th.

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Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010 04:21 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Harbinger on July 22 2010 4:36 PM

Saw the bad guys stopped half way up Peden Hill this afternoon. Kudos today to the Mounties.

Posted by: Junco on July 22 2010 4:47 PM

Right on. Way to nail em.

Posted by: Mercenary on July 22 2010 5:09 PM

Ha. Right on RCMP!! I love these kinds of stories. I have ZERO sympathy for thieves.

Posted by: jales4 on July 22 2010 5:37 PM

Great job!!

Posted by: verballabel on July 22 2010 5:53 PM

Good job!! Too bad... tomorrow will be a good day to go jet skiing..!!! Idiots, trying to steal!

Posted by: chrislivingdowntown on July 22 2010 6:31 PM

Some people are pretty blazing. But foolish to do a crime like that not well thought out. To think how much time he'll be in the system. I hope he thought this was all worth it. Geez some people's children.

Posted by: supertech on July 22 2010 6:56 PM

He had a bad childhood and was a victim.
He will go to classes for a while and then be out to do it all over.

Posted by: sparkymarc on July 22 2010 8:20 PM

to serve and protect, lets watch what happens with the other items in the news, the couple from alberta, missing for how long??? the officer in vancouver,the shove thing,that one should be let go right now and thats all,(serve and protect). Lets not be to quick pat our boys and girls with the stripes to quick!!

Posted by: acrider54 on July 23 2010 8:35 AM

Quuick service for a buisness but if they made off with those machines from your house, you might get a responce hours later.

Posted by: lmorge on July 23 2010 8:41 AM

Too funny. I thought Godwin retired? Can't live on the pension eh? Least you get some money as a reserve Constable.

Anyways in an unmarked car driven by an administrative Staff Sargent - he probably forgot how to perform a proper high risk stop. Out on Administrative business? He was probably on his way home for lunch. There is no reason for an admin Staff Sargent to be doing business out of the office. None that I know of anyways.

Was he in uniform? Bet he forgot his gunbelt. Many of the admins never wear it around the office and forget to put it on when they step out for coffee etc.

None the less, he did remember that in an unmarked car of the type he was most likely driving, he is not allowed to pull anyone over.

Must have made his day though...feel the rush! Get back on the road, man!

Posted by: Harbinger on July 23 2010 12:41 PM

I lied. It wasn't Peden Hill. May have to enroll myself in a night school course about being an eyewitness.