A man known to the police and courts is back behind bars after failing to stop when an officer spotted him allegedly driving a vehicle with inactive licence plates.
The officer was attempting to pull over Keenan Frank Michell Glen Sam, 25, in an alley next to Tamarack Street near 20th Avenue shortly before midnight Monday. But RCMP said Sam ignored the lights and siren and took off through a driveway, colliding with a parked utility trailer and a fence in the process.
The vehicle was located moments later unoccupied in a parking lot on Upland Street and a police service dog was brought in. Sam was arrested about a block away without incident and a knife, a small amount of methamphetamine and a loaded firearm magazine were found on him, RCMP said.
RCMP said Sam has a lifetime firearms prohibition and was on probation with conditions not to possess a controlled substance, not to possess a weapon and not to possess a knife.
Moreover, police said the licence plate on the vehicle was was stolen off a vehicle parked on the 4100 block of 1st Avenue the day before.
Sam faces eight charges: dangerous driving, fleeing police, resisting arrest, possession of stolen property under $5,000, possession of a controlled substance, possession of ammunition contrary to an order and two counts of breaching probation.
Sam, has an record of convictions, largely theft-related offences committed in Fort St. James and Prince George. In June 2015, he was sentenced to six months in jail and 18 months probation and issued the lifetime firearms prohibition for a September 2014 robbery in Prince George.
He was held in custody overnight and was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.
