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Police are in search of a person wished on a B.C.-wide warrant who struck an RCMP officer throughout a site visitors cease and fled on Saturday.
The incident occurred at round 10:30 a.m. after an officer with the B.C. Freeway Patrol pulled over a automobile related to a person with an impressive provincewide warrant for his arrest on Freeway 91 southbound at 72nd Avenue in Delta.
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After a quick change, the motive force fled the scene, placing the officer. Emergency crews responded and the officer was taken to hospital. The officer has since been launched from hospital and is predicted to make a full restoration.
The suspect driver is being recognized as 57-year-old Tobin Peter Haas of Vancouver.
The automobile Haas was driving has been discovered, however Haas hasn’t.
Haas is needed on an impressive warrant for break and enter in addition to for questioning concerning the hit-and-run.
Members of the general public are being advised to not method Haas, however to as an alternative telephone their native police if he’s seen.
“Our ideas are with our officer and his household as he recovers at residence, and we wish to prolong our honest due to Delta P.D., Surrey RCMP, Surrey Police Service, and different responders for his or her fast actions and help as this incident unfolded,’ mentioned Insp. Brian Donaldson, OIC of South Coast B.C. Freeway Patrol.
“We’re asking you, Mr. Haas, to please do the precise factor and switch your self in.”
Anybody who might have witnessed the incident or has dashcam footage is being requested to contact B.C. Freeway Patrol — Burnaby at 604-526-9744 and confer with file quantity 2024-424.
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