Lethbridge police search for suspect who fled after crash, gas theft

Lethbridge police are asking for help from the public to identify a man believed to be involved in a high speed crash Sunday night.

Police said Monday a crash happened in the roundabout at Garry Drive and Highlands Boulevard West at about 6:55 p.m. A black Chevrolet Equinox—later determined to have been stolen from Taber and involved in a gas theft the night before—was driving south on Highlands Boulevard “at a high rate of speed.” It hit the curb, knocked down two signs and drove into the raised middle part of the roundabout before colliding with two “large landscaping rocks,” police said.

“A native male and a native female who were in the vehicle fled from the area on foot,” police said in a statement.

Several witnesses followed the suspects, including a witness who took a cellphone video of the pair leaving the area. When a bystander tried to stop the man, police said he took out a collapsible baton “to prevent him from being detained.”

Police later found the woman hiding at a nearby park and arrested her with help from the K9 unit. She was set to appear in Lethbridge Provincial Court Monday at 9:30 a.m.

Police are searching for the male suspect, describing him as about 6’ with a medium build, wearing a red T-shirt, black pants, black Converse shoes and a black backwards hat.

Anyone who can identify the male suspect is asked to call the Lethbridge Police Service at 403-3247-2210 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.