LANDIS — A neighbour helping the owner of a stolen vehicle attempt to retrieve his property ended up having his vehicle rammed on the Red Pheasant grid road in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Unity/ Wilkie/ Macklin RCMP had a report at 4 a.m. that a vehicle had just been stolen from a farm near Landis. The owner of the stolen truck followed the tracks to the Red Pheasant grid road.
Shortly after the truck owners' neighbour, who was helping look for the truck, located it and attempted to follow it north in the rural area. The thieves abandoned one vehicle in the ditch and then used the stolen vehicle to back into the neighbour's vehicle that was attempting to follow them, before leaving towards Cando district, police report.
Wilkie and Battlefords RCMP recovered the damaged stolen truck abandoned on Highway 4 approximately 15 kilometres south of Cando.
RCMP are reminding residents to remove their keys from the ignition of their vehicles and to secure their valuables so they are not targeted by thieves.
The Unity RCMP are asking that anyone observing suspicious vehicles in their area to call the Unity RCMP at 306-228-6300 and provide the information to the RCMP dispatchers who are working 24/7.
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