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Teens nabbed after another stolen car chase

By: Staff Writer

22/12/2009 12:45 PM | Comments: 72

WINNIPEG -- It was a police chase made for a helicopter, and couldn’t have come at a better time for Winnipeg police chief Keith McCaskill, who is making his pitch for one today.

On Monday night, two ‘Level 4’ car thieves wearing their GPS ankle bracelets stole a new model Chevy Suburban from a parking lot in the 1300 block of McPhillips Street.

Two homes were broken into just after 8 p.m., but no property was taken.  At 8:30 p.m., a home in the first 100 block of Great Elm Cove was broken into and a newer model Ford Fusion was stolen from the garage. The suspects ditched the Suburban and fled in the Fusion.

With the help of Manitoba Probation Services' electronic monitoring staff, the suspects’ whereabouts were tracked to the South Tuxedo area of the city. At 8:50 p.m., police spotted the car in the area of Holland Boulevard and Grant Avenue and attempted to stop it.

From there, an intermittent pursuit began that would ultimately involve a dozen police cruisers -- including a canine unit and four members of the Stolen Auto Unit -- and take the police from one end of the city to another, from Tuxedo to Inkster Boulevard and into Elmwood.

Const. Jacqueline Chaput said the pursuit was aborted a few times -- particularly on Grant Avenue -- because it became too dangerous for officers. At some points, the suspects were travelling at speeds in excess of 100 km/h. 

Both thieves cut off their ankle bracelets during the pursuit, Chaput said, but police still managed to corner the heavily damaged Fusion at about 9:40 p.m. at Chalmers Avenue and Henderson Highway.

The Fusion was involved in at least one collision, Chaput said.

"No one was hurt, thankfully," Chaput said.

The GPS bracelets are worn by the city’s most notorious car thieves.

Two males, aged 17 and 19 were arrested and face numerous charges.  Both remain in custody and police continue with the investigation.

 

 

 

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Instead of trying to track a stolen vehicle with a helicopter, or allowing the stolen vehicle to drive half way across the city and back again, why not buy one of these, as an efficient and effective way of stopping the thieves.

After the good boy (as they are often called by their parents) is reduced to a pulp, I think his friends would think twice about stealing another vehicle.

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@not so quiet.... regarding all the non-voters. I don't think you even have a right to talk about what the government is or is not doing unless you get out there and vote.

I think the next election better address the young offenders act and how ridiculous it is!!! I think a lot of us non-voters would take the time to vote if we knew we were supporting someone that wants to get really tough against crime!!!!

Lol riderfan, see I was thinking they meant to Heaven...or Hell... or the Earth (dust to dust).

Thank goodness for the Young Offenders Act! We need to protect these innocent 'victims'. We're doing a great job teaching these unfortunates that they're not responsible for their actions but that it's probably their parents fault, or better yet, the fault of our fractured 'system' that forced them to fall through the cracks of society. I'm kidding of course.

I'm sure if an MP's car was stolen and was later involved in the death of an innocent passerby, you can bet strict laws would get pushed through Parliament faster than the H1N1 vaccine!

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@rural roots: send them back where they came from????

uhhh... to where? their mothers' wombs? are you assuming that these people are immigrants? nooooo more than likely they were here before us and we stole their land from them and now we owe them something... like our cars maybe?

Why does our justice system promote this life style? If our justice system is not preventing it, then they must be promoting this. They keep poking their head in the dirt and pretending our system is working. They protect the names, their identity, give them a nice warm place to stay few a few months, then they set them free to repeat their crimes.

This is too much. Lock them bums up and throw away the key. It's frustrating for all when we know they are just on a continuous crime spree every chance they get. There is no justice out there least not for the victims.

Manitobans are being criminalized to pay for the extreme costs of continually processing young offenders and the damage they are doing. It is criminal in itself to have our government continually seeking new ways and new money to process these people. --with no solution in sight.

Let's see...our justice system has disappeared, the young offenders act doesn't work, these kids have now turned into career criminals, and our city is the murder capital of Canada.

I think it's time to take our city back and abolish the young offenders act, severely punish these kids who know right from wrong, slap the criminal aspect out of these kids with harsher punishments and publicly naming them like we do the rest of the "career" criminals.

They want respect? Make them earn it like everyone else.

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