Three in Custody Following Short Chase

Saturday, December 16, 2006 07:46 AM

Three people have been arrested following an early morning vehicle chase and a foot chase.

Prince George RCMP say a blue and white Ford truck was being driven erratically east on Highway 16 just after 4 this morning. Police followed the truck on to Tyner Boulevard to the intersection with Ospika, when the vehcile started picking up speed. Although officers put on their emergency lights, the truck failed to stop. The Ford turned on to a gravel road near the University entrance then turned on to an unplowed road where it got stuck in the snow.

A police service dog unit was called in, and police dog "Faro" caught a female young offender. Faro then followed a track from the truck into the woods, eventually coming to a plowed footpath behind the university residences. Faro apprehended one male as he tried to run towards the entrance of the University, the second male was arrested by an officer in the area.

Turns out the truck had been stolen, as the owner had left it parked on Gauthier Road while he caught a ride to work. When he got off shift, he returned to discover his truck missing.

The three people picked up early this morning are now facing charges. The young offender female and one male will be facing a charge of possession of stolen property, while the driver will face a charge of possession of stolen property and cause a pursuit with police.

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Posted on Saturday, December 16, 2006 07:46 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: giterdun on December 16 2006 11:53 AM

THEY SHOULD ALL EAT THEIR NEXT FIVE XMAS DINNERS UP ON THE HILL. WISHFULL THINKING.

Posted by: Gofaster on December 16 2006 12:03 PM

They probably will...

Posted by: lmorg on December 16 2006 12:27 PM

I hope Faro got some good bites in!!

Posted by: REALIST on December 16 2006 1:24 PM

You guys kill me. Once again these crimes are a sign of a sick society. We need to fix our society to fix these problems. When your taxes go up you complain you pay too much. Then your answer to our problems is to lock these guys up and throw away the key. Makes no sense to me. Makes about as much sense as buying and feeding a hundred cats to kill off a few mice. No one likes to have their car stolen or their property taken but, it is becomming apparent to even the provincial government that policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer cause crime. The answer does not lie in locking everyone up, the answers lie in fixing the root problems. Until our leaders start to address these problems, taxes will continue to spiral out of sight to buy band aids. I don't blame you for being angery, we all should be angry at how things are going but, at least understand who to be angery at. Remember, monsters are always created, never born. We will never get rid of monsters by cutting of their heads as they appear. Only through reducing the elementd that create monsters can they be controlled.

Posted by: ammonra on December 16 2006 3:30 PM

What you say is quite true, realist, but there are two sides to every coin. Not everyone raised in despair or an abusive home becomes a delinquent. There are factors involved other than society and government. Pure chance being one. As well, other members of society have the right to live without being victims.

The best answer to delinquency is clearly good opportunities in life, and a society that values people rather than money. Nevertheless, we do not yet have that, and those who choose (and it is a choice) to wander down a delinquent path must be brought to account. I personally have been there, done that, and got an education instead.

Those who choose to steal must have it forcefully brought to their attention that they may not do that. While I think five years in prison is overkill for what these people did (I am presuming they are young), a period of public service and probation if they are first timers would be appropriate. If repeaters, then a few months inside might help make society's limits clear.

Posted by: jonnypg on December 16 2006 4:36 PM

Yes 'REALIST' get your truck stolen and see how you feel...Having to deal with all the problems after they steal it insurence comp's renting a car etc.,but don't forget you have to be at work the next day too! oh I forgot you need a vehicle to get there first!

Posted by: Harbinger on December 16 2006 6:25 PM

Henry Morgentaller said that his operations keep the crime rate down. What a thought, eh? He really said that.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on December 16 2006 6:37 PM

REALIST "...Only through reducing the element that create monsters can they be controlled."

Let me at those parents!

Posted by: wrinkledawg on December 16 2006 7:13 PM

They can't be very bright. With all the nice lookin Chevys in town they had to steal a Ford.

Posted by: Chester on December 16 2006 11:21 PM

There are consequences for every decision we make. The consequences for stealing someone elses property should be enough of a deterant for them to not want to do it again. Period. I don't really care why they did it. Chester

Posted by: Longnecks1 on December 17 2006 9:39 AM

Anybody notice that since the strap was taken out of school....Crime is way up....same as not alowed to spank your kids....Kids now a days don't know any disipline...Do your root problem and it will lead back to disipline as a very young person.

Posted by: REALIST on December 17 2006 10:14 AM

Yup, I agree with the majority of the above. Even yamamen,s input has a bit of sense to it. Would it surprise anyone to know that many of these teen crimes are commited by youth from the College Height's Beverly Hills region? Any guesses how this fits into what I said in the above post?

Posted by: Runner46 on December 17 2006 12:15 PM

At what time in our lives are we responsible for the choices we make?

I too used to lean toward society and parents as the culprits, but the older I get the more I reflect on the choices I made and where they took me.

We all have a free will, true or false?

We all make choices, true or false?

If true to both, then realistically who should benefit from our decisions? Us or others?

Posted by: REALIST on December 17 2006 12:31 PM

Perhaps this wisdom has come from the benifit of age Runner. As a youth I know I made very bad decision that I would not make today. Our youth today is raised by the cheqapest daycares as both parents usually need to work to provide the mighty dollars to maintain a family. Good role models are ulimately out numbered by poor role models as seen on television or even many of our own government officials who lie and cheat regularly (B.C. Rail and investment funds as but two examples). Corporation rape and steal when possible for their own advantage and a recent study of Business Administration M.B.A. candidates showed that the vast majority of them beleive that lying and cheating are acceptable tools in the business world. Our kids don't really stand much of a chance of developing morals and ethics that will benifit all of society at this point. Disenfranchisement of the youth is what we do and crime and drug use are but symptoms of the sickness.

Posted by: lmorg on December 17 2006 1:45 PM

like I said: I hope faro got some good bites in. That'll be a good deterent to these shitrats in the future, since the courts won't do the job.

Posted by: Harbinger on December 17 2006 2:16 PM

Or you can just wait til they grow up and hopefully move away. As oppose to hangin' them.

Posted by: owl on December 18 2006 6:34 PM

"Anybody notice that since the strap was taken out of school"

School????? So what?

Was it taken out of the home?

Did we ever have it in the home?

Why was it in school, but not at home?

Why go immediately to school when someone commits a crime? Why not go to the home?

And when you get to think about the home, look at the parents, and remember that they may very well have been there when the strap was still in school. So why, if the parents were brought up with the strap at school, are they bringing up kids who commit this sort of vandalism - I doubt they were professional car thieves. Fido (oops, Faro) does not catch them too often. :-)

Posted by: owl on December 18 2006 6:43 PM

"At what time in our lives are we responsible for the choices we make?"

I realize you are directing this at the kids. However, the parents too have made choices in raising their children.

The question also ought to include why have the parents raised children who make the wrong choices? Everyone makes choices. Parents, children, teachers, school principles, society.

Why do we create computer games which glorify this sort of thing? Because we have a supposed "free" society? If we have a "free" society, and we do not direct those who are growing up into that society to do the "right" thing" but reinforce doing the "wrong" thing, then why should we be surprised that kids make the "wrong" choices every now and then?

Given a "free" society without direction, the probability of making wrong versus right choices is no different than a coin toss.

Unless, of course, one believes in the miracle that making the right choice is not a matter of the environment one grows up in, but a matter of the DNA we get at conception.