Stolen Vehicle Tracked To Silver Star Road

RCMP officers on the ground — and in the air — pursued a suspected stolen vehicle in the Vernon area Monday morning.

Mounties say the vehicle was travelling southbound at a high rate of speed around 11 am when it turned off Highway 97 near Otter Lake Cross Road and went east up Silver Star Road.

Front line officers blanketed the area to make patrols and tracked the vehicle to an address in the 6100 block of Silver Star Road, where the two occupants of the vehicle were arrested.

“The top priority of the responding units is to ensure public safety, therefore a swift and well executed containment of the area was made by front line officers,” says RCMP Cst. Kelly Brett. “The RCMP Air Services Unit was also deployed to the area in the event that the vehicle attempted to flee from police, however it was front line officers who located the vehicle and apprehended the suspects without incident.”