Man charged with fleeing from police in stolen vehicle in Charlottetown
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — A 31-year-old Charlottetown man is in custody after a sequence of incidents that included an SUV theft and flight from police on June 7.
Charlottetown Police Providers have been referred to as to a Linden Avenue house at about 7 a.m., the place a person reportedly took a automobile with out the proprietor’s permission.
Police mentioned the suspect was identified to the proprietor. The proprietor had declined the person’s request to make use of the automobile, however the man took the keys and drove off anyway, police mentioned.
Officers have been then alerted to be looking out for the stolen automobile.
At about 8:15 a.m., a report got here in a couple of man in a enterprise parking zone on Buchanan Drive seen taking a license plate from one other automobile and placing it on a white SUV.
Police decided this SUV was the identical one reported stolen earlier.
Round 8:30 a.m., police noticed the stolen SUV at a fuel station on Capital Drive. Once they tried to cease the automobile, the driving force fled, however officers have been capable of intercept the automobile on Sherwood Street and arrested the person with out incident.
The accused is dealing with a number of fees, together with theft of a motorized vehicle, break and enter, theft below $5,000, harmful operation of a motorized vehicle, flight from police, breach of a recognizance order, and failure to adjust to a launch order.
