UPDATE: RCMP vehicles go through Vernon in hurry, suspect arrested in Greenwood

Mar 30, 2023 | 4:30 PM

UPDATE:

March 30, 2023

We now know why about 12 police vehicles were spotted driving through Vernon at a high rate of speed on Wednesday morning (Mar. 29) with their lights and sirens on.

The members of the RCMP’s Emergency Response Team, based in Kamloops, were headed southbound, on their way to the community of Greenwood where they helped arrest a suspect in a break and enter in Osoyoos earlier in the day.

Police say the alleged break in occurred at a home under construction in the South Okanagan community.

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A 37-year-old man from Greenwood was taken into custody and is facing charges of break and enter and failing to comply with his probation order.

Greenwood is located on Highway 3 in south-central B.C., just north of the Canada/United States border, 80 km east of Osoyoos and 36 km west of Grand Forks.

UPDATE:

March 29, 2023

RCMP are not releasing details on an incident involving the South East District Emergency Response Team, but say it is not in the North Okanagan.

Further details, when appropriate, will be released by the detachment of jurisdiction

Original story

Drivers in Vernon said it was quite the spectacle.

Calls to Vernon Matters say as many as 12 police vehicles, most of them unmarked, were seen travelling through the city on Highway 97 (32nd Street) at a high rate of speed just after 10 this morning (March 29).

Another person said they counted 13 police vehicles on the move — all unmarked and with their lights and sirens on — north of Vernon.

Vernon Matters has reached out to Vernon North Okanagan RCMP for information on what type of incident they may have been responding to and where it is.

by Pete McIntyre

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