Stole truck, fled from Mounties, man gets nine months
By Peggy Revell on May 23, 2018.
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell It was a nine-month sentence for a man who twice fled from the Mounties in a stolen truck, ultimately rolling the vehicle into a ditch. Brendan Cote was given 113 days credit towards this sentence due to time already spent in custody, while also being sentenced to nine months probation in the hopes he can access support programming to help with his issues like addictions. According to the agreed statement of facts, Redcliff RCMP located a stolen truck on Dec. 15, 2017 around 10:14 p.m., with Cote in the driver’s seat. A female passenger accompanied him. As the officer approached the vehicle on foot, it sped away through a ditch onto the Trans-Canada Highway. Another RCMP officer was nearby and turned on their lights to pull the vehicle over. At this point, the vehicle again fled, turning north off the highway onto a gravel road, and then making its way to Box Springs Road. Police decided to not continue pursuing the vehicle. Soon afterwards, they responded to a call for a single-vehicle rollover, and upon attending the scene discovered that it was the stolen vehicle. The driver and passenger were not in the vehicle, so police dogs were called in. The pair were found hiding under a blanket about 200 yards away. 9
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