Update - Manitoba RCMP pursue stolen vehicles

April 3, 2020
RM of Brokenhead, Manitoba

News release

RCMP have charged 26-year-old Tristan Michael Mariash with numerous Criminal Code offences as a result of the incidents that occurred on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in multiple municipalities outside Winnipeg that culminated at Deacon's Corner.

Charges include multiple property related offences, multiple driving related offences, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, possessing a weapon and multiple charges for failing to comply with release conditions. He has been remanded into custody.

Charges are pending for the 27-year-old female who was also arrested during this incident.

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On April 1, 2020, at approximately 5:50 pm, Beausejour RCMP received a report of a suspicious vehicle stopped near a residence located on Road 38 E, in the RM of Brokenhead.

It was reported that two males and one female were seen unloading an ATV from a truck and trailer. When approached by a concerned citizen, the suspects loaded the ATV back onto the trailer and drove away.

The concerned citizen followed the suspects to the intersection of Highway 12 and Highway 44. At the intersection, the suspects exited their pickup truck and slashed the tires of the concerned citizen and sped off.

The information was relayed to officers working in the nearby detachments and patrols were initiated.

At approximately 6:45 pm, an officer, with the Selkirk Detachment observed the suspect vehicle travelling southbound on Highway 59 and initiated a traffic stop. The suspect vehicle turned east onto Garven Road and then south on Fairview Road towards a dead-end.

The suspect vehicle then backed into the police vehicle and fled the scene.

A pursuit was initiated down Garven Road until the suspect vehicle entered the ditch and became inoperable. The two male suspects fled on foot and the female suspect was arrested on scene.

A short time later, information was received that two vehicles had been stolen near Garven Road. The reports indicated that one stolen vehicle was headed southbound on PR 207 and that the other stolen vehicle was heading eastbound on Springfield Road.

While patrolling the area, a vehicle could be seen a significant distance from the police vehicles headed southbound on PR207 travelling at a high rate of speed. Officers pursued and when they approached the intersection of Hwy 1 and PR 207, they observed the stolen vehicle collide with a light standard. The male suspect had fled on foot running westbound in the eastbound lane of Hwy 1 where he was arrested by officers.

A 26-year-old male and a 27-year-old female, both from Winnipeg, face multiple charges and remain in custody. RCMP continue to search for the third male.

The investigation is ongoing.

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Contact information

Sgt. Paul Manaigre, Media Relations Officer
RCMP Media Relations
204-983-8497
Media.Relations.RCMP.Manitoba@rcmp-grc.gc.ca

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