Suspect nabbed in West Kelowna RCMP bait car

A 22-year-old Kelowna man was not even supposed to be driving when he stole the wrong car in West Kelowna early this morning.

At about 4:15 a.m. today, Aug. 18, RCMP were notified by their dispatch centre that a bait car had been broken into and was on the move so, based on speed and direction, officers flooded areas where the vehicle was headed.

“Front line officers intercepted the eastbound vehicle on Highway 97 South near Westside Road where it had stopped,” Const. Solana Paré, media relations officer for the Kelowna Regional RCMP, said in a news release. “The driver and only occupant, a man known to police, was taken into custody.”

Not only was the man suspected of driving while prohibited from doing so, but was in violation of several other orders imposed on him by the courts.

He was kept in custody pending further charges.

To learn more about the RCMP bait car program, go here.

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Rob Munro

Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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