Roger Knox
Black Press
Talk about your good neighbours. A man from Golden was in Vernon on the weekend when he noticed his neighbour’s truck, the same vehicle he knew to have been stolen from Golden on Oct. 20. The truck was spotted at around 1 p.m. in the 5000 block of Anderson Way.
“Two officers attended and located the stolen truck,” said Vernon RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk. “When the police arrived, a man took off running from the driver’s side of the truck.”
The man ran north through a parking lot toward the back of the Real Canadian Superstore.
“Our officers chased the suspect on foot and were able to arrest him at the north side of the Superstore,” said Molendyk.
The suspect, a 41-year-old Enderby man, was taken into custody.
Police learned that a 49-year-old Enderby woman was with the man. She was in the Superstore on the second floor near the walk-in clinic.
She, too, was taken into custody.
Molendyk said officers learned the vehicle was used in a residential break-and-enter in Cranbrook on Oct. 20. “A TV and various other items were located inside the vehicle,” said Molendyk.
The 41-year-old man was slated to appear in Vernon Provincial Court on Monday to face charges. At this point, no charges against the woman have been laid.
