Police take 3 prohibited drivers off Mission roads, including biker doing wheelie in traffic

MISSION — Mission RCMP have had a busy week on the roads last week, according to the detachment’s latest community round-up.

On February 9, at 6 p.m., a woman was reportedly struck after running out in front of a pickup truck turning left from the Lougheed Highway onto Wren Street and was knocked down. While witnesses tried to keep her at the scene, the woman immediately wanted to leave.

“Paramedics assessed the woman, but she refused to be taken to the hospital, so police drove her to where she is residing and requested that others monitor her for signs of a concussion,” said Mission RCMP. “It appears the truck was turning on an advance turning light and had the right of way.”

Earlier that day, officers arrested a 53-year-old known prohibited driver with a “lengthy criminal record” leaving a gas station on Logan Avenue, and the next day, police stopped a 44-year-old man with a “considerable” criminal record after the Crime Reduction Unit spotted his motorcycle turning from Stave Lake Street onto the Lougheed Highway.

The bike did a wheelie and passed several vehicles at high speeds before unmarked police cars stopped it at Cascade Falls.

On February 15, General Duty officers stopped a suspicious vehicle and arrested a 29-year-old woman who was also prohibited from driving. 

Lastly, on the afternoon of February 12, an officer pulled over an out-of-town car along Logan Avenue to check whether the driver had a valid license – but the woman in the vehicle gave the officer someone else’s name. 

“Unfortunately for this woman, it turned out that while she thought there might be an arrest warrant out for her, there wasn’t one, and she would have been free to go if she had provided her own name,” said the RCMP. “But there was an arrest warrant out for the person whose name she gave to the officer.”

The woman was then taken into custody, at which point she revealed her true identity and was subsequently released with a warning that she would be charged with obstructing a peace officer if she lied about her name again. 

Mission RCMP responded to 301 calls for service between February 9 and February 15.