A Dawson Creek woman is in custody and police are on the lookout for two more people in relation to a series of pickup truck thefts.
Christina Louise Nellis, 34, has been charged with possession of stolen property, threatening to assault with a weapon and fleeing from police.
Prince George RCMP said she was arrested early Saturday morning after police received at report at about 3:30 a.m. of a suspicious vehicle between two businesses on Otway Road.
When Mounties tried to pull the vehicle over, the driver drove through two ditches and rammed the side of an RCMP car before heading towards Miworth.
Police did not pursue, but located the abandoned vehicle a few minutes later in a ditch. A police dog and handler were called in. Nellis was found hiding under a fallen tree and apprehended at about 5:20 a.m.
Checks on the vehicle found it to be stolen from Dawson Creek on December 5. Nellis faces counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000, dangerous driving, possessing a firearm without a licence and knowingly occupying a vehicle in which there is a firearm on that file.
RCMP, meanwhile, determined another truck was stolen from the business where the first one was located. It was also found abandoned a short distance away and dogs were used to track the two additional suspects.
One suspect was tracked to another business where a third stolen vehicle was found to have been stolen - a white 2006 Ford F250 short-box pickup truck bearing B.C. licence plates DY8093 - and remains missing.
The second track led to a home where a female suspect asked a resident to call a taxi. She's described as Caucasian, 168 cm (5'6") tall and weighing 68 kg (150 lbs) with reddish hair in a bun or ponytail and wearing jeans, a red or maroon coat and brown boots
A description for the other suspect was not provided.
Nellis remains in custody in Prince George.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Prince George RCMP at 250-561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Tips can also be provided online at www.pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca, or by texting CRIMES using keyword "pgtips."
