Police plane, dogs used to arrest pair in Regina

Two people are facing multiple charges after the Regina police plane was used to help arrest them after an incident in the city on Thursday involving a vehicle reported stolen.

Regina Police Service (RPS) said in a news release on June 20 that an officer on patrol around Lewvan Drive and Dewdney Avenue, not far from Mosaic Stadium, on June 19 saw a vehicle just after midnight that had been reported stolen.

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RPS said the vehicle was being driven erratically and the officer called for support from the Regina police plane, which began tracking the vehicle.

The vehicle was driven out of the city south on Highway 6 and along several gravel roads before turning back onto Highway 6 north towards the city, police said.

A tire deflation device was used successfully, which slowed the vehicle’s speed to around 40 km/h in in the Whitmore Park neighbourhood, RPS said, and it eventually stopped after hitting a tree in the 3100 block of Grant Road.

Both people in the vehicle then ran away, and the police plane tracked them while police dogs on the ground, police added.

A woman was found by one of the dogs hiding in a backyard and during her arrest she got “minor injuries” to her foot and was taken to hospital, RPS said.

The male driver, who police said was running through yards and green spaces, eventually climbed onto the roof of a home in Daffodil Crescent. The police plane told officers on the ground where to find him, and RPS said the man was arrested after “a short conversation.”

The man, 36, has been charged with possession of property over $5,000 obtained by crime, operating a vehicle in a way that was dangerous to the public and failing to comply with a probation order. The woman, 25, has been charged with possession of property over $5,000 obtained by crime and failing to comply with a probation order.

Police did not say where the pair were from.

Both appeared in Regina Provincial Court on June 19.

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