A Calgary man has been charged with 27 offences after a crash in the 5200 block of Macleod Trail South early Tuesday morning. The accident followed a police chase that lasted nearly two hours and reached speeds of 180 kilometres an hour, police said.
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Travis Ricky Ball, 25, of no fixed address, has also been charged in relation to several other incidents that happened on June 19 and June 24.
On June 19, police allege he stole a vehicle from an Aspen Woods home before breaking into a Springbank Hill home and stealing items including credit cards. Police said he then used the cards at convenience stores around Calgary and bought gas in Red Deer.
Police allege Ball tried to steal property from a store in Market Mall on June 24, then set off bear spray before driving off in a stolen vehicle.
Charges against Ball include assault with a weapon, various charges related to dangerous driving, break and enter, fraud, theft and failing to stop for police.
Ball and a woman were taken into custody early Tuesday morning after an SUV stolen from Leduc hit a building, a tree and then stopped at a barrier. The initial call to police was for reports a man was assaulting a woman in a parking lot in the area of 52 Street and 26 Avenue N.E. at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.
“Upon police arrival, the man and woman got into a white Jeep Cherokee, which had previously been reported stolen, and drove northbound in the southbound lanes of 52 Avenue, nearly hitting the marked police vehicles that were responding to the incident,” police said in a previous statement.
Police said the woman was not facing charges as of Wednesday afternoon.
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