Police nab suspects after truck tries to flee on rims
Slow-speed chase on Highway 14
RCMP say four people were taken into police custody following a police chase between Saskatoon and Biggar on Wednesday.
At roughly 3:40 a.m. a stolen vehicle was being followed by units with the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) out of the city on Highway 14. City police had attempted to stop the truck, a Ford F350, within the city by using a spike belt, but it only deflated two tires.
The vehicle continued travelling toward Biggar on Highway 14 at speeds that ranged between 20 to 40 kilometres an hour on the rims of its tires.
Around 5 a.m., RCMP attempted to use a spike belt for a second time to try to stop the truck. However, the driver of the vehicle was able to avoid the device, driving the truck into the ditch where it became stuck.
The occupants of the vehicle then refused to exit the car at which time members of the RCMP and Saskatoon police surrounded the car and closed off the area to the public.
After roughly five hours, the occupants of the vehicle exited, and surrendered to police.
A Saskatoon truck driver believes he saw the chase as it was underway.
As he was leaving Biggar heading back toward Saskatoon on Highway 14, Chuck Chansler saw a pickup truck with no front tires being pursued by multiple RCMP cruisers in the opposite direction.
“It’s like ‘oh my goodness! These guys are doing a slow chase!’ ” Chansler says.
About 10 minutes later, Chansler saw marked Saskatoon Police Service SUVS driving toward Biggar as well. He saw more unmarked police vehicles heading toward the scene as he got closer to Saskatoon.
“That’s probably pretty close to one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen,” says Chansler, who is a contract driver for the Starphoenix.
“It feels like something you would see in Miami or Los Angeles, but here it is in rural Saskatchewan.”
Two men and two women are now in police custody and the incident is now under investigation.
RCMP say further updates will be provided as information becomes available.
That’s probably pretty close to one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.