Gotcha! Zagwyn in Custody

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:47 AM

21-year-old Richard Dean Zagwyn is now in custody.

RCMP from several detachments had been searching the Fraser Lake and Vanderhoof areas since Monday when they attempted to pick up Zagwyn on a Canada Wide Warrant for parole violation.

By late last night, police obtained information that the suspect had left the Fraser Lake area and was now in a wooden area near Vanderhoof. There were reports that a person had been taken hostage.

Emergency response teams were called in and there was an exchange of gunfire between the suspect and police.

Shortly after 7:00 this morning, a male was located in a wooded area on Stoney Reserve in Vanderhoof. Police believe this may be the individual taken hostage. He was not injured and was taken away from the scene and is currently being questioned by police. Less than an hour later the Emergency Response Team located the suspect in the woods and arrested him without further incident.

“I am extremely happy to see how resources from around B.C. were activated quickly and deployed to the scenes”, says C/Supt. Barry Clark, North District Commander. C/Supt. Clark says, “By being able to draw ground and air support from the neighbouring Detachments, SE District and the Lower Mainland, we were ultimately able to end this peacefully for all those involved.”

21 year old Richard Dean Zagwyn is being held in custody in Vanderhoof on the strength of a Canada-wide warrant for a parole violation. Multiple investigations are now underway and additional charges are expected. Additional investigators from “E” Division Major Crime are being brought in to assist North District Major Crime.

The search for Zagwyn involved officers from neighbouring Detachments including the Emergency Response Teams from the Lower Mainland, the RCMP Helicopter from Kelowna who arrived to work with the North District resources, including Major Crime, Forensic Indent, and Police Dog Services who were all involved in the search north of Fraser Lake.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:47 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Parrothead on August 22 2007 2:54 PM

Why is it that the RCMP do not have a chopper based in the North? Given the vast area they need to cover, a choppein in PG seems like a good investment!

Posted by: snappi on August 22 2007 4:27 PM

Another one bites the dust...chalk one up for the good guys!!

Posted by: Palopu on August 22 2007 8:44 PM

Choppers are too expensive to have them sitting around idle. If they could have a modified one that worked in conjunction with the Ambulance Service, then it might work. Anyone involved in a car accident at say Hixon, is going to have a long wait for an ambulance. Im sure there have been times that if a helicopter was available lives would have been saved.

In any event we have other things to spend money on such as Sport Plex's, PAC's, Tunnels Under Highway 16, Replay Boards at the CN Centre, etc; etc; etc;. Not likely we can afford a helicopter.

Posted by: Chester on August 22 2007 10:18 PM

All this concern over someone who should have still been in jail. Shame on us.

If those parole officers believe that serving their full terms don't change the outcome, then I suggest we leave them in for the full term anyway. Chester

Posted by: metalman on August 23 2007 8:33 AM

On the helicopter issue:
With tongue in cheek;
Perhaps what we need is a study.....
hee hee hee ho ho ho ha ha ha
metalman.