Two people arrested after police catch speeding stolen truck

A crime spree that left two people injured and two trucks stolen spanned from Regina to two Fort Qu’appelle-area reserves before ending five hours later with two arrests in a Balgonie-area farmyard.

Regina police first became involved around 8 p.m. Wednesday when an officer at the General Hospital on an unrelated call spotted a speeding white Ford truck. Moments earlier, officers had tried to do a traffic stop on a white Ford truck, according to information released by the Regina police and RCMP.

As the officer walked from the hospital door, he heard people yelling that the speeding truck had hit a pedestrian. But by then the vehicle had fled northbound on Toronto Street.

The pedestrian, a 72-year-old man, was treated for injuries described as serious, but not life threatening.

Police learned the truck had been stolen from a garage in south Regina around 6:30 p.m. and that it had also crashed into a traffic sign at 13th Avenue and Broad Street just before 8 p.m. It’s believed the truck was fleeing that scene when it hit the pedestrian.

By about 9:20 p.m., officers found the suspect Ford F250 truck around Rae Street and Second Avenue North. The man driving had picked up a woman.

At one point, in the events that followed, the man racked and pointed a shotgun at an officer. The man and woman fled in the truck and headed east outside the city.

Regina police alerted the Mounties.

According to RCMP, the stolen truck turned up at a residence on the Pasqua First Nation, 70 kilometres away, where a man was assaulted with a firearm in his own home. A second vehicle was then stolen from that residence, and the two stolen trucks headed south, driven by the man and woman.

The first stolen vehicle was abandoned on Pasqua, while RCMP found the second one driving on the Muscowpetung First Nation. RCMP gave chase but called off the pursuit when the vehicle entered Edenwold.

A second chase began, just south of the town, and ended when the truck ran out of gas near Balgonie on Highway 46.

While a female passenger was arrested on site, the man fled from the driver’s seat but was tracked by a police dog to a nearby farmyard. Police said the suspect tried to use a large skid steer to assault officers trying to arrest him. Officers deployed a conducted energy device and pepper spray and took the suspect into custody around 1 a.m. Thursday.

A 29-year-old man and 26-yearold woman face numerous charges.