Teen charged with tractor theft after low-speed chase
Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2009 | 3:58 PM AT
CBC News
A 16-year-old boy from Prince County in P.E.I. has been charged with several offences following a low-speed chase involving a stolen farm tractor over the weekend, police say.
RCMP with the West Prince detachment said they received a call on Sunday that a tractor pulling a trailer load of peat moss was being driven erratically through the community of O’Leary.
Sgt. Jamie George said the caller told them the tractor had nearly struck the local Co-op store in town.
George said that when police officers located the tractor, which was stolen from a peat moss company in Miscouche, and tried to speak to the driver, he started it up and drove away.
"He was having some difficulty, I guess, manoeuvring the tractor, probably due to lack of experience,” George told CBC News on Monday. "They felt that there was a danger for the public with him driving down the street so they continued to follow him until he drove into a ditch and into a field,” he said.
George said the police were able to run up to the tractor on foot and jump on it to pull the driver off.
The teen was placed under arrest and charged with fleeing police, dangerous driving, mischief causing property damage and possession of stolen property.
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