A man in his 20s has been charged with theft, dangerous operations of a motor vehicle and failing to stop at the scene of an accident in relation to a stolen pickup truck that crashed in Burnaby Friday.
The black Ford F150 truck was reported stolen in Langley in the early morning hours of Sept. 21.
Police caught up with it at about 2 p.m. in the 3800 block of Nithsdale Street at Smith Street after it crashed into another vehicle stopped at a controlled intersection, said Burnaby RCMP.
The driver and two passengers in the other vehicle were taken to hospital with minor injuries and later released, police said.
There was only one person in the pickup, according to Burnaby RCMP.
Kaymen Wesley Winter, 24, has now been charged in relation to the incident.
He was taken into custody “through a coordinated effort which involved officers from Langley RCMP, Surrey RCMP, Burnaby RCMP, New Westminster Police, Vancouver Police, and the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team, and Air 1,” according to a Surrey RCMP news release.
Burnaby RCMP got involved when the suspect entered Burnaby, according to Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis, but he said information about the events leading up to the suspect being located in Burnaby were “not available at this time.”
When asked whether police had been pursuing the suspect vehicle when it crashed, he said, “There was no pursuit prior to the collision.”
