A 20-year-old from southern Ontario is going through 19 legal charges, together with the tried homicide of a North Bay police officer who tried to arrest him in a stolen automobile Friday, police say.
An officer on basic patrol within the Wyld Road space of the northeastern Ontario metropolis round 11:30 a.m. Might 31 was alerted by the automated license plate recognition system of an approaching automobile that was reported stolen.
The automobile fled when the officer tried to drag the driving force over.
One other officer discovered the automobile in a Memorial Drive car parking zone and approached the driving force.
“After a brief trade, during which the driving force offered false identification, the driving force put the automobile in movement and struck the officer, pinning him between the accused’s automobile and one other automobile,” North Bay Police Service stated in a information launch Monday.
“The officer ended up on the bottom and the accused then drove towards the officer, who was capable of escape. The accused then struck a police cruiser and one other automobile a number of occasions earlier than driving away at a excessive charge of velocity.”
Sustaining minor accidents within the incident, the injured officer was taken to hospital and is recovering.
The suspect struck one other police cruiser because it arrived, police stated.
A brief automotive chase ensued down Memorial Drive however ended resulting from public security causes.
A number of individuals known as 911 to report the suspect driving “dangerously all through the town” earlier than serving to officers find the automobile once more on MacBeth Avenue.
The accused was arrested after a brief foot chase.
“He was discovered to be impaired by medicine and was transported to North Bay Police Service headquarters, the place he was positively recognized by means of fingerprints,” police stated.
“A small amount of unlawful medicine was discovered on account of police searches.”
On the time of his arrest, the suspect was out on a launch order from Brampton for a number of crimes, together with flight from police, harmful operation of a motorcar, mischief and possession of property obtained by crime.
On account of the incident, he’s charged with breaching his launch order together with 18 others.
He was held in custody for a bail listening to.
“The North Bay Police Service want to thank a number of members of the general public who assisted on this investigation at numerous areas all through the town, particularly those that got here to the help of the injured officer,” police stated.
“The North Bay Police Service’s legal investigations unit is constant to analyze this incident, and is requesting the general public’s help. Investigators are in search of eye witnesses and doable sprint cam footage which will have captured the any portion of the incident. In case you have any data in relation to this or every other incident, please name 705-497-5555 and press 5 to talk with an officer.”
