A 38-year-old man, who police identified as armed and dangerous, was arrested Wednesday after allegedly stealing a vehicle following a collision.
Blackfalds RCMP were called to Township Road 394 near Haynes at 4 p.m. Monday, where an SUV collided with a pickup truck. The SUV was disabled and the driver forcibly took the pickup truck and fled the scene.
The man driving the pickup wasn’t injured from the collision, but was injured in the struggle with the suspect.
The pickup truck, with two flat tires, was seen travelling north toward Bashaw, then toward Ponoka and was last seen driving onto an oilfield lease site.
The truck was recovered by police, and the search for the suspect continued.
At 5:10 p.m., RCMP officers from Ponoka, Blackfalds, Maskwacis and Bashaw detachments, along with Red Deer and Wetaskiwin Police Dog Services, GIS and Ponoka Integrated Traffic Services, containment the area around the oilfield lease site.
An RCMP helicopter and the Emergency Response Team were deployed as well. It was later determined the suspect fled from the property on a snowmobile prior to the containment.
Police announced he was arrested Wednesday without incident.
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