Truck stolen from airport is recovered
A youth suspect is facing charges after a pickup truck stolen from the Whitehorse airport was recovered last week.
A youth suspect is facing charges after a pickup truck stolen from the Whitehorse airport was recovered last week.
A 17-year-old has been charged with the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and theft of a motor vehicle.
The suspect cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The Nissan pickup was reported stolen from the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport on Aug. 10.
Shortly before 5 p.m. the next day, Whitehorse RCMP received information from a “sharp-eyed citizen” who reported seeing the stolen vehicle leaving the area of the mud bogs, police said in a news release last Friday afternoon.
An RCMP officer located the vehicle on Robert Service Way, heading towards Riverdale.
“When the member attempted to pull the vehicle over, however, the vehicle failed to stop,” the release said.
“Given the concern for public safety, the vehicle was not pursued.”
The truck was located shortly afterward, with no one inside.
The RCMP’s Police Dog Services were called in to assist, and a suspect was later arrested.
Anyone with further information is asked to contact the police at 667-5555.
Comments (10)
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June Jackson on Aug 21, 2015 at 8:03 pm
I never look at thumbs up or thumbs down. I occasionally reply to trolls that don't have any comment at all about the article but just want to attack me. I consider them to be little cyber bullies and try to remind them that the forum is about the article not about me.
Also.. the Star logo says it all..
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Whatajoke on Aug 20, 2015 at 11:08 pm
To anyone surprised with the number of thumbs down, it's one juvenile person with a lot of free time doing it. Not a horde of pro-crime Whitehorse residents.
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lol @ thumbs down on Aug 20, 2015 at 3:23 pm
Wow.. enough thumbs down there? I hope you are never a victim of theft, or something you work hard for does not get damaged. You'd change your tune for sure. Sad time we live in.
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Yukoner on Aug 20, 2015 at 10:39 am
Look at all the thieves and little Bustards that need some parenting. I'm assuming that is all the thumbs down's.
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yukoner on Aug 19, 2015 at 9:10 am
Attn. Steven Harper - please get rid of the youth offender's act.
Start publishing the names of these offenders and stop babying them.
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Josey Wales on Aug 19, 2015 at 8:33 am
hmmm...maybe we need a few of those swank steel "lockers" the city pissed our money away with? Ya know to avoid leaving our valuables in "plain sight". Fill the lots with sea cans and a chain, to tie off an ornery dog....avoiding the "Trevor the human types"?
...or ditch the young offenders act (liberal nonsense)?
....or ditch Gladue, resulting in the extinction of "the Gladue kangaroo" and its ability to jump from one scene to another with impunity. (yup..more liberal piffle) ....we could also try ditching section 718 of the CCC (liberal hug a thug)?
...or we could by-pass the enabling system, our malfeasance Mounties..... and take our town back from the many, many, maaaaany criminal scumbags and dangerous (human like)predators...age spectrum irrelevant.
Welcome to NEW Whitehorse, the sphincter of political correctness & enabling.
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Thieves Suck! on Aug 19, 2015 at 8:31 am
Please make sure the thief at least covers the cost of repairs involved in stealing the truck. (Busted locks & Ignition, etc.) If he can't pay it make his parents pay. With no consequences there is no deterrent and assuming the youth is from the Yukon we will have years of stolen and broken-in vehicles to look forward to with out "justice" system.
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June Jackson on Aug 18, 2015 at 11:34 pm
Well said Yukoner!! And only too true. The Legislature and the judiciary are setting the stage for vigilante justice..personally, I am afraid of a lawless society, but that is the way we seem to be heading.
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corrections on Aug 18, 2015 at 5:18 pm
OK Yukon Judges, if any of you actually read public opinion (you know, the opinion of people you purport to represent); time to be creative and set some new precedents in terms of severity of sentencing in order to help reduce the crime in Yukon that citizens have noted and RCMP have confirmed as an increasing trend. Make an example out of the CRIMINAL who at age 17 would have been vary aware of their actions.
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Yukoner on Aug 18, 2015 at 4:20 pm
And nothing will happen to him and the owner of the truck will most likely have to give him gas money and maybe the truck as he's now accustom to having one.