{"id":499569,"date":"2026-02-25T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499569\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:40:07","slug":"arrested-suspect-steals-alberta-sheriff-patrol-cruiser-northwest-of-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499569\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested suspect steals Alberta Sheriff patrol cruiser northwest of Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Alberta Sheriff patrol vehicle is back in the hands of the authorities after it was stolen by an arrested suspect on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta RCMP say they were notified about the theft around 10:12 p.m. It\u2019s not clear where and how the cruiser was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the car was located travelling near Gunn, Alta., northwest of Edmonton, and Mounties pursued it.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP deployed tire spikes but the cruiser continued to drive on flat tires, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the accused attempted to drive into Spruce Grove, Alta., RCMP forcefully pushed the vehicle into the ditch,\u201d police said in a news release. \u201cThe accused successfully drove out of the ditch and entered oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Alberta RCMP cruiser made contact with the accused\u2019s vehicle and disabled it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 42-year-old from Spruce Grove was taken to hospital. They are facing a wide range of charges, including flight from police; escaping lawful custody; theft of a motor vehicle; and assaulting a peace officer with a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Alberta Sheriff patrol vehicle is back in the hands of the authorities after it was stolen by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-499569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}