Police chase ends with car crashing into Saskatoon house – Saskatoon

A 27-year-old Saskatoon man is in custody following two vehicle thefts and a police chase that resulted in a collision with a home Monday night time.

Round 8 p.m. Saskatoon police have been alerted {that a} Ford Escape SUV had been stolen from a enterprise within the 2600 block of Avenue C North.

Officers tracked the automobile utilizing GPS and say it was being pushed erratically by a lot of areas together with thirty third Road and Confederation Drive earlier than driving by a park.

Police used spike belts twice to partially disable the SUV, however the driver managed to drive again to the enterprise on Avenue C.

Police say the suspect deserted the SUV and stole a GMC Dice Van.

They used one other spike belt on the van, which then crashed into three police autos and at last a home on the 800 block of Avenue S North.

Neighbour Alexis Bennett mentioned the incident occurred proper outdoors her house and was upsetting for her and her babies.

“I heard this rumble and I used to be like what’s that noise,” Bennett mentioned Tuesday. “Unexpectedly we noticed like six cop vehicles simply flying down twenty ninth avenue.”

She mentioned the sound of spike belts popping the van’s tires seemed like gunshots.

“We closed the blinds, shut the lights off and ran to the other facet of the home and all of us simply sat on the ground,” Bennett mentioned.

When her husband lastly regarded out the window, he noticed that the van had crashed into their neighbour’s home.

Whereas nobody was severely injured, she desires to know the way police let the chase get up to now.

“My query is why did it take so lengthy to cease this man if they’d been monitoring him with GPS the whole time,” Bennett mentioned. “There’s a number of us within the space together with my neighbours who need to know why…. Why did it need to get up to now the place it was in a residential space the place folks may have been injured if not killed?”

Through the man’s subsequent arrest, police discovered a knife in his possession.

He’s now going through fees of possession of stolen property, assault of 4 law enforcement officials, harmful driving, theft and breach of courtroom circumstances.

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Police chase ends with automobile crashing into Saskatoon home