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By Logan Lehmann

Crime

Teen charged after dragging officer with vehicle during investigation, arrest

Apr 12, 2025 | 10:23 AM

A 17-year-old girl is in police custody after dragging an officer and hitting a police vehicle during an arrest in a stolen vehicle investigation.

The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday at around 2:40 a.m. when Prince Albert RCMP were assisting Warman RCMP officers with a stolen truck and break and enter investigation reported in the Corman Park area.

The stolen truck was later located at a home on Sturgeon Lake First Nation.

When officers approached the vehicle, the driver began to back out of the driveway and dragged an officer with the vehicle. The driver then drove forward, colliding with an occupied RCMP vehicle that was blocking the driveway. No injuries were reported.

Officers were able to remove the driver, while four other occupants in the truck fled into some nearby bushes. The four were located and arrested around an hour later with the help of Prince Albert RCMP Police Dog Services.

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Following the investigation, RCMP have arrested and charged the driver, a 17-year-old woman, with two counts of assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, and one count each of possessing stolen property of a value over $5,000, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, mischief damage to property over $5,000, and failing to comply with conditions of release order, which is in relation to earlier charges of fleeing from police in a motor vehicle.

The driver, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, appeared in Prince Albert Provincial Court on Thursday and is scheduled to appear again via CCTV on Monday.

As for the four others who fled into the bush, they were released without charges.

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