A 19-year-old Hamilton man is facing a long list of charges following several attempts by Peterborough police to stop a stolen vehicle on Sunday (April 11).
At 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, while investigating reports of several vehicles stolen from the west end of Peterborough, police located one of the vehicles in a parking lot in the Sherbrooke Street and Kinsmen Way area, resulting in charges against a Peterborough woman. Officers also recovered, in the same parking lot, a second vehicle that had been reported stolen.
During the investigation, officers saw a vehicle known to have be stolen from Halton Region taking off through the fields at Kinsmen Park. Police initiated a pursuit of the vehicle but called it off because of the high rate of speed.
At around 8 a.m., officers on patrol in the downtown Peterborough area observed the same vehicle and attempted to stop it. The driver accelerated away at a high rate of speed, running through a red light. Police did not pursue the vehicle for public safety reasons.
Police later spotted the same vehicle again on Monaghan Road at McDonnel Street. Officers set up a road block several blocks away, but the driver drove onto the sidewalk to avoid an officer and a police vehicle and continued to speed away, running several more red lights in the process. Police called off a brief pursuit, again because of public safety concerns.
A short time later, police located the empty idling vehicle in the Simcoe Street parkade in downtown Peterborough. Officers spotted a man at Aylmer and Simcoe streets who matched the description of the driver and arrested him without further incident.
As a result of the investigation, Nathan Carney, 19, of Hamilton has been charged under the Criminal Code with flight from police officer, dangerous operation of a vehicle, two counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, and one count of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.
He has also been charged with fail to comply with a probation order, as he is bound by a probation order out of St. Catharines with conditions to keep the peace and be of good behaviour.
Carney has also been charged under the Highway Traffic Act with 10 counts of failing to stop at a red light, driving while under suspension, and fail to signal for turn.
He is being held in custody and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday (April 12).
Also arrested and charged as a result of the investigation is 19-year-old Cheyenne DeMaeyer of Peterborough. DeMaeyer has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000. She was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in court on April 27.
