It took three tries for him to depart, but a man told to not be found within the Yukon has left the jurisdiction.

Douglas Robert Mills, 40, made it onto an airplane early Monday afternoon headed to Vancouver and stayed on it.

The territory's Department of Justice had bought the man a ticket for a flight last Saturday. Mills, however, got off the aircraft and wandered around town until he was picked up by the RCMP for causing a disturbance.

He'd been sentenced last Friday morning to time served for causing a ruckus in Teslin after being kicked off the bus that was taking him out of the Yukon on March 3.

A few days before that, he'd been given a one-year probation order that included the term to not be in the Yukon.

On Friday, the judge changed that condition to give Mills until May 4 to get out of town.

Originally, Mills wasn't to be sentenced that day. However, he was back in court so the Crown could amend the order that was to see him sent to a forensic psychiatry hospital in Saskatchewan for a mental health assessment.

With his latest sentence kicking him out of the Yukon, the intent was to have Mills return to his family and social supports in B.C., explained prosecutor Kevin Drolet. Mills suffers from a personality disorder, a mental illness at the root of many of his criminal convictions.

Mills was scheduled to be back in court at 1 p.m. Monday for the regular bail hearing court to answer to the new charges from Saturday.

However, it was discovered that a plainclothes RCMP officer from the major crimes unit was headed to Vancouver on unrelated police business on the 12:50 p.m. flight. That officer agreed to accompany Mills on the flight to make sure he arrived safely in B.C.

To that end, the man's case was brought back to court Monday morning to change the probation order's deadline for him to be out of the Yukon to noon that day, unless he was in the company of a Mountie.

He was released on an undertaking with the sole condition that he not drink on the aircraft.

The plan is to stay the charges once Mills is safely back with his family, Drolet said.