A Busy Holiday For Local RCMP
Jan 4, 2018 | 10:45 AM
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Prince George RCMP received 1222 calls for service from December 20, 2017, to January 1st. This is less than the 1352 reports sent in during the same period a year ago.
Significant files over the holidays with investigations still occurring:
- On December 25, 2017, local mounties responded to a report of a male with gunshot wounds on the 2600 block of Norwood Street. The 18-year-old’s wounds are non-life threatening and were sent to the hospital for treatment. He is known to police and is uncooperative.
- On December 26, 2017, a 37-year-old man was arrested for mischief and possession of a weapon. The arrest was made after a call to a residence on Loyola Cresent.
- On December 28, 2017, police received a report of a stolen vehicle from a residence on Ruggles Street. The vehicle was later located in a parking lot near 5th Avenue and Carney Street.
- In the late evening on December 28, 2017, a home invasion robbery took place at a residence on Redwood Street. Multiple armed suspects had forced their way inside and stole several items. Three people from the home were injured. Two people have been arrested so far.
- In the late evening on December 29, 2017, a Break & Enter was reported at a home on Nugget Avenue. When police arrived, the suspect was attempting to flee, but the vehicle slid into a snowbank on Radcliff Drive. The suspect was arrested afterwards.
- In the early morning of January 1st, local mounties received a report about a stabbing that occurred at a party on Dagg Road. The 18-year-old victim and witnesses did not cooperate with police.
- At around 1 a.m. on January 1st, a car collision involving a pedestrian occurred on the 2400 block of Highway 97 in the Hart area. The pedestrian was not using a crosswalk. The man was sent to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
For 2017, there were 44,000 calls received by police, with an average of 120 files a day. Those numbers are up from 2016, where police received 41,400 files, with an average of 113 files a day.
