Man Accused In Last May's SUV Sinking In Vanderhoof, Gunned Down

Sunday, February 03, 2008 05:20 PM

Prince George, B.C. - The 19 year old man who escaped from a Ford Escape that plunged into the Nechako River in Vanderhoof last May has died of gun shot wounds in Vancouver.

Pritpal Singh Virk was found by a passer by lying in a pool of blood in the 400 block of East 54^th St. , Saturday night .

Virk was facing charges of drug possession and drug trafficking along with Aaron Takhar who had been driving another vehicle at the time police made the road stop check in Vanderhoof. Virk was also charged with obstruction of justice.

The rented SUV plunged into the Nechako river, when it tried to avoid a police check stop. The driver of the SUV, 19 year old Daljit Sandhu of Richmond, managed to get out of the vehicle, but he was not able to make it to safety and he drowned .

Virk had escaped the sinking SUV and was able to make it to shore down stream where police arrested him hiding in bushes.

A major search for Sandhu was undertaken by family members but it would be two months before Sandhu’s body would be pulled from the river.

170 marijuana plants were discovered in the SUV when it was pulled from the river in Vanderhoof.

The plants, according to information provided to Opinion250, were headed to Terrace to a grow op in that community.

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Posted on Sunday, February 03, 2008 05:20 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: red2b on February 3 2008 6:10 PM

found guilty and sentenced by others.

Posted by: Harbinger on February 3 2008 6:24 PM

Wow! Small province, eh? Pot lost in transit? Oh oh. Bummer!

Posted by: lmorg on February 3 2008 6:52 PM

Two down but unfortunately lots to go. A new batch of em replenishes the ranks as fast as they perish.

Posted by: thereasonableman on February 3 2008 6:58 PM

Hey, weren't these guys' families on here sh!t-talking everybody and saying what great people they were, and how he was going to university, etc ?

Maybe they were Independent Soldiers, as some on here insinuated....

Posted by: Harbinger on February 3 2008 7:13 PM

Now they are "Independant Dead Guys".

Posted by: heidi1555 on February 3 2008 7:25 PM

I can't believe how crazy life can be. Makes me want to put my arms around my kids and never ever let them go.

Posted by: realitysetsin on February 3 2008 7:37 PM

Natural Selection.

Posted by: bohemian on February 3 2008 7:39 PM

Darwin Awards.

Posted by: BCRacer on February 3 2008 7:44 PM

I hear ya heidi,
I hold my kids and grandkids every chance I get....
Making memories.......
Sad what this world is becoming.....

Posted by: red2b on February 3 2008 7:50 PM

"Hey, weren't these guys' families on here sh!t-talking everybody and saying what great people they were, and how he was going to university, etc ?"

Yeh, school of 'keep yer mouth shut'
Maybe he wasn't paying attention in class!

Posted by: Andyfreeze on February 3 2008 8:04 PM

A lot of people who posted regarding the SUV full of pot in the river got bad mouthed pretty good when it happened,by the families of these two losers.
Fine upstanding boys they tried to make us believe!
We had it all wrong of course!
Ya right...and tell me they didn't know what these two creeps were up to?
What goes around,come around, and this one just got paid in full.

Posted by: Runner46 on February 3 2008 8:12 PM

My kids and grandkids are coached to believe that they make their own choices every day of their lives. Some good, some not so good.

I choose to not pass judgement on others, something about "their but for the grace of God go I"

Posted by: RUEZ on February 3 2008 8:45 PM

Good riddance.

Posted by: Chester on February 3 2008 9:23 PM

How sad that their lives were wasted in this way. One drowns by trying not to get caught by police doing something illegal. The other one is shot and killed. Over Drugs? Money? What could possibly have been worth getting killed for? Chester

Posted by: owl on February 3 2008 9:38 PM

Lots of sailors got killed over the centuries moving spices and other goods around the world. Today people get killed for cutting down trees so that people can read newspapers and others still get killed tranporting logs and other good by truck ......

Is that worth getting killed for?

Few people think about that when they begin to do whatever they do to maintain the lifestyle they wish to maintain for themselves, whether the activity is criminal or legitimate.

They think they are better than those other careless people. They have a different preception of acceptable risk than the majority of people around them.

Posted by: thereasonableman on February 4 2008 4:12 AM

There, but for the lack of greed and stupidity, go I ?
I don't think God has anything to do with it.

Posted by: doneright on February 4 2008 4:13 AM

When are people going to wake up and start going after the government for letting these idiots and the ones just like them back on the streets? The cops don�t even get the paper work finished and the punks are back on the streets. The government needs to start addressing the problem and that is are judicial system. Texas has a chain gang that has an 80% percent success rate. The prisoners here used to grow their own vegetables, but some bleeding hearts said that was unjust. Unjust my @ss. These low life�s committed a crime and should not have any rights. It�s only a matter of time before some one that�s innocent catches a bullet from these punks, and they couldn�t careless, so why should we.

Posted by: metalman on February 4 2008 7:47 AM

"live by the sword, die by the sword"
rough on the families though.
metalman.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on February 4 2008 8:50 AM

The government DOES need to address the problem but that isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
They should however, have to explain WHY they are not dealing with it, inspite of what they like to tell us.
There is something very odd about their attitude towards these low lifes and criminals in general.
When it comes to these different ethnic gangs which are increasing and becoming much bolder,the only thing that they really fear is deportation but, as we know,that rarely happens, and the government needs to explain why!
Time for some very tough changes to our immigration laws and our courts.
Nobody is above the law,not one of us,and our judges and our elected officals need to start sending that message!
Perhaps a longer waiting period before citzenship is granted might earn a bit more respect for Canadian laws.
Obviously, it is our politicians who we need to beat on for the increase in gang violence, and I refuse to believe that tougher laws would not at least help.
Even a realitivley small northern community like PG is fast becoming outright dangerous!
The violence IS increasing at an alarming rate, even if no one wants to admit that.

Posted by: Harbinger on February 4 2008 11:01 AM

Just say no to drugs. Ha ha ha. Ya right.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on February 4 2008 2:14 PM

"..There is something very odd about their attitude towards these low lifes and criminals in general..."

The government has to treat the next generation of homeless bums different. There is a whole bums industry waiting for these guys to show up, if they live long enough.