The RCMP are on the lookout for a stolen vehicle that evaded their attempts to stop it on May 23.
According to a a press release from the Salmon Arm RCMP, an officer on patrol spotted a black F-150 pickup truck that was stolen from the 3000 block of Sunnybrae-Canoe Point Road earlier in the day.
The officer attempted to stop the stolen truck but it fled, driving fast and passing vehicles on the right as it went west on the TCH.
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Police response included the RCMP helicopter which was in the area at the time, the local highway patrol unit and help from the Sicamous RCMP.
Sgt. Murray McNeill of the Sicamous RCMP said his officers deployed a spike belt on the Bruhn Bridge where the Trans-Canada Highway crosses the Sicamous channel to help contain the stolen vehicle.
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Officers from the Sicamous detachment stopped westbound traffic on the highway for approximately 15 minutes to ensure the safety of other motorists if they had to immobilize the vehicle.
“We had the spike belt set at the bridge so if it was going to come through we could spike it safely without traffic in the way, but it never made it out,” McNeill said.
“It looks like it got somewhere in Canoe and the Salmon Arm members lost sight of it.”
The vehicle is described as a black 1998 F-150 4×4 pickup and did not have licence plates when it was last sighted by police.
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