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Police searching for suspects after RCMP boat set adrift in North Vancouver
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. – Police are looking for two men suspected of untying a RCMP boat in North Vancouver, causing it to drift into the path of other vessels.
North Vancouver RCMP were called early Friday morning when the coast guard reported that the patrol vessel Inkster was adrift and had floated into the path of the Seabus, a commuter ferry that travels Burrard Inlet.
Police and the coast guard got the 20-metre vessel back to the dock undamaged, but Corporal Geoff Harder of the North Vancouver RCMP says in a release that the consequences could have been extremely dangerous.
He says there was real potential for people to be hurt and other boats in the area to be damaged.
Police say video surveillance shows two men untied the boat around 11 p.m. Thursday.
RCMP are investigating several Criminal Code offences related to the incident, and are looking for any information that could identify the two men.
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