Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

Sentence issued for crashing stolen car

A man who drove a stolen car through the garage door of a Sadler Drive home was sentenced Tuesday to one year probation and ordered to pay $3,000 restitution.
car-crash-sentence.19_71820.jpg
Police and Prince George Fire Rescue on scene where a stolen car was driven through a garage of a home on Sadler Drive on Dec. 4, 2017. Vincent Albert Martin, who spent 224 days in custody following his arrest, was sentenced Tuesday to one year probation and ordered to pay $3,000 restitution.

A man who drove a stolen car through the garage door of a Sadler Drive home was sentenced Tuesday to one year probation and ordered to pay $3,000 restitution.

Vincent Albert Martin, 40, was issued the term in Prince George provincial court for the Dec. 4, 2017 incident on counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000 and dangerous driving.

Police had arrested martin shortly after the homeowner witnessed the crash from inside the home. The car had gone missing from near the corner of Foothills Boulevard and 15th Avenue earlier the same day.

Martin has remained in custody since his arrest, a total of 224 days.