Man clocked going nearly five times over limit in school zone

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on July 22, 2021.

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A man clocked driving almost five times the speed limit through a Medicine Hat school zone has been charged with dangerous driving, Medicine Hat Police Service said Thursday.

A release states that in the early evening on July 16 officers observed a white Lincoln Navigator travelling rapidly down Southview Drive. Radar pegged the rate of speed at 141 km/h in the playground zone.

Officers pursued the vehicle and with the aid of residents eventually found it crashed into a garage and back fence of a residence.

Police say the 44-year-old male driver was charged with one count of dangerous driving and will be required to make an appearance in provincial court.

RCMP arrest trio in Foremost

A regional crime task force says they have arrested three people in Foremost after a highway chase on nine counts of fraud over $5,000 last month, and have seized a truck and trailer they say is filled with stolen goods.

The RCMP’s Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit and Lethbridge Police Service say their investigation into a two-month-long string of property crimes came to a head on June 23 when a truck fled from police near Grassy Lake.

They later left the trailer in the middle of Highway 877, authorities say, and when police caught up to the vehicle in Foremost, two men fled on foot but were soon arrested.

Charged are Mark Boivin, 38, Nathan Thomas Roscovich, 33, both of no-fixed address, as well as Denise Rae Larouche, 41, of Beaver County, Alta.

They are jointly charged with theft over $5,000, relating to a 2020 Dodge 3500 Bighorn, nine counts of fraud over $5,000 and three counts of fraud under $5,000.

Two also face drug charges, and the two men were wanted on arrest warrants.

Police expect to lay more charges once they catalogue “hundreds” of other recovered items, which police believe were stolen.

The three individuals will appear in Taber Provincial Court on Aug. 10. Two remain in custody.