Man wanted after committing Island-broad ‘crime spree’ in stolen truck, RCMP say

VANCOUVER —
Mounties in several jurisdictions on Vancouver Island are looking for a particular person suspected of a string of thefts and damage-ins that delight in taken space over the ideal two weeks.

The sequence of incidents started in Deep Bay on June 11, according to a news initiate from Oceanside RCMP, the detachment that serves Parksville and several other communities north of Nanaimo.

Round 6 p.m. that day, a tan Chevy Silverado pickup truck was stolen from the 300 block of Crome Point Aspect toll road in Deep Bay, according to police, who added that theft wasn’t reported till the following day.

In the length in-between, sincere earlier than 8 p.m. on June 11, police obtained a file of a damage-in at a paint store in Qualicum Seaside. The truck considered leaving the scene matches the outline of the particular person that had been stolen, police stated.

On June 15, Ladysmith RCMP obtained a file of a success-and-sprint wreck at a local ironmongery store. The collision came about sincere after 11 a.m. and broken two vehicles, and RCMP say the truck involved in the wreck again matched the outline of the particular person that had been stolen in Deep Bay.

Also on June 15, North Cowichan RCMP obtained a file of a theft from a vehicle in a parking lot in the 2800 block of Mill Aspect toll road in Chemainus. One in all the items stolen was a credit card, which was dilapidated at a gas field in the village, police stated.

Finally, on June 16, a Lake Cowichan RCMP officer seen the truck in the 10000 block of Youbou Aspect toll road in Youbou. The officer seen that the truck’s licence plate was partly obscured by spray paint, which was suspicious, police stated.

After checking on the truck and learning it was stolen, the officer attempted to arrest the particular person by entering the passenger aspect of the truck. The particular person averted the officer and fled on foot, according to RCMP.

A police provider canine was known as in to relieve discover the particular person in the woodland he had sprint into, but officers had been unable to find him.

Police portray the suspect as a white man with a thin gain and short hair. He stands roughly 5’8″ gigantic and was ideal considered wearing a green Component t-shirt, hide-coloured shorts, dusky socks, white running sneakers, a Hockey Canada baseball cap, a bandana over his face and aviator sunglasses.

Somebody who has information about any of the incidents or can relieve police establish the particular person might perhaps perhaps peaceful call the Oceanside RCMP detachment at 250-248-6111, police stated.