Man arrested after daylong search

A man who stole four vehicles led police on a daylong search before a break-in victim fired a gun at him, police say.

A vehicle was reported stolen from a home on Britannia Close in Selkirk on the morning of Oct. 20. Someone abandoned that vehicle on a property on Highway 9 in the Rural Municipality of Gimli and stole a Ford F-250 from the same property. The theft was reported at 12:15 p.m.

Manitoba RCMP said in a news release that people reported someone in an F-250 “causing mischief to properties” and driving dangerously in the Interlake throughout the day.

At 5 p.m., the pickup truck was abandoned on a property on Elderberry Bay in Fisher Branch, where someone stole a GMC Sierra. A Ford F-150 was stolen an hour later, and the Sierra was abandoned on the victim’s property.

Officers spotted the F-150 in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, but the driver wouldn’t stop.

Shortly after 8:30 p.m., a man tried to kick in the back door of a stranger’s home on Road 87 North in Rockwood. A homeowner fired a gun towards the man, RCMP said, and the man tried to get into vehicles on the property before running away.

Mounties found the F-150, which was significantly damaged, near the home. A police dog and a drone were used to find a man hiding along a brush line at a neighbouring property.

A 27-year-old Selkirk man is facing a dozen charges and was remanded in custody.