6 RCMP detachments involved in arrest of 2 Regina men

RCMP have charged two Regina men with several offences after a drawn-out police chase spread between two provinces.

It started around 11:30 a.m. Thursday when RCMP in Brooks, Alta. contacted the Maple Creek, Sask. detachment about two kidnapping suspects travelling east on Highway 1 in a white car.

Mounties found the vehicle abandoned in rural Alberta soon after.

They discovered someone had stolen a black truck in the same area and, believing it was related, told Sask. RCMP.

Eventually, Swift Current RCMP located the truck travelling on a grid road near Tompkins.

RCMP from Maple Creek, Shaunavon, Gravelbourg, Ponteix, Swift Current rural and municipal, Combined Traffic Services, Swift Current RCMP Police Dog Services and the Swift Current RCMP Forensic Identification along with Saskatchewan Highway Patrol, SERM and the Prairie Sky Region Community Safety Officer tried to stop the truck multiple times.

The suspects then abandoned the truck in a farmyard north of Ponteix and stole a grey pick-up, RCMP said in a news release.

That vehicle ended up in a ditch east of Wymark around 3 p.m. Thursday.

RCMP arrested the men and found no sign of victims in the vehicles.

Montel Mau, 25, of Regina is charged with dangerous operation of a conveyance, flight from police, theft of a motor vehicle, possession of property obtained by crime and breach of recognizance.

Police charged Emery Lavallee, 36, also from Regina with dangerous operation of a conveyance, flight from police, theft of a motor vehicle and possession of property obtained by crime.

The men both appeared in Swift Current Provincial Court on Friday.