Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

Jumper fails to evade police

A 25-year-old man who jumped from the third floor in an attempt to escape police was among four people arrested Friday when the Prince George RCMP's street crew unit executed search warrants on two homes in the city.
x

A 25-year-old man who jumped from the third floor in an attempt to escape police was among four people arrested Friday when the Prince George RCMP's street crew unit executed search warrants on two homes in the city.

The suspect made the leap when RCMP entered a 3800-block 15th Avenue home. He was apprehended by a police dog and handler and found in possession of a significant amount of cash, cocaine, and heroin or fentanyl or combination of both, RCMP said.

He taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Two other people, a 28-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman, both from Prince George, were also arrested.

And a 27-year-old Prince George man was arrested when RCMP executed a search warrant on a

200-block North Ospika Boulevard home where police said a significant amount of cash was found.

All four suspects have been released from custody pending further investigation. Their names were not released Monday.