Mounties say a 34-year-old man has been discovered responsible of 4 fees after a hit-and-run crash that injured two police canine service officers in 2019.
Police say Jason Kirupakaran was convicted of two counts every of legal negligence inflicting bodily hurt and failing to cease after an accident inflicting bodily hurt.
RCMP mentioned on the time of the crash on March 4, 2019, the officers had been in a automobile pulled off to the facet of the street when a stolen automotive hit their automobile.
The officers had been critically injured and brought to hospital.
The Burnaby detachment’s officer in cost, Chief Supt. Graham de la Gorgendiere, says whereas the conviction doesn’t take away ache of the accidents the officers proceed to endure, it’ll present some measure of consolation.
The officers, one from the RCMP and the opposite from the Abbotsford Police Division, had been on responsibility for the Decrease Mainland Built-in Police Canine Service on the time.
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