By Chris Brown

Truck got stuck

Medicine Hat man who fled in truck through field and fences arrested by RCMP in Brooks

Aug 11, 2020 | 12:18 PM

BROOKS, AB – A Medicine Hat man was arrested near Brooks on Monday, but not before causing damage while trying to escape from rural landowners.

At about 6:45 p.m. on Monday, Mounties in Brooks received multiple calls about a suspicious person seen in the city’s industrial area and a complaint of the same suspect trespassing on a rural property just north of Highway 1.

When confronted by those landowners, the suspect fled in the truck through the fences, fields and irrigation pipe. The driver fled by foot when the truck got stuck.

He was located in the area and arrested without incident, say police, who determined the truck had been stolen during a previous commercial break and enter.

Gerald Mohr, 46, from Medicine Hat is charged with two counts of break and enter and one count each of theft under $5,000, theft of a motor vehicle and obstruction of justice.

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Mohr was also wanted on outstanding warrants for robbery and failing to comply with a release order at the time of his arrest. He remains in custody and is set to appear in Brooks Provincial Court on Aug. 12.