On March 23, , at approximately 12:15 p.m., a Meadow Lake RCMP Crime Reduction Team (CRT) officer observed a white SUV driving through a stop sign on First Avenue at the corner of Centre Street in Meadow Lake.
Before the officer could initiate a traffic stop, the white SUV fled at a high rate of speed towards Highway 55.
The officer attempted to pull the white SUV over multiple times. The white SUV did not stop and continued to flee at a high rate of speed.
At approximately 1:30 p.m., a Meadow Lake police officer deployed a tire deflation device on Highway 4, north of the junction with Highway 55. As the police officer deployed the spike belt, the white SUV struck the police officer. The officer was treated at a hospital for injuries described as non-life-threatening.
The white SUV drove over the tire deflation device and police officers located the white SUV abandoned approximately four kilometres away.
Meadow Lake CRT and Police Dog Services officers tracked the occupants of the vehicles who had fled on foot. The officers located a male and female and arrested them on scene.
The two suspects did not report injuries to police.
Keistein Michell, 26, from Prince Albert is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault of a police officer, assault of a police officer with a weapon, failure to stop after an accident resulting in bodily harm, flight from a police officer, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, operation of a motor vehicle while impaired, operation of a motor vehicle while impaired over 80mg%, failure to comply with an undertaking, and resisting/obstructing a police officer.
Jasmine Beatty, 26, from Deschambeault Lake is charged with flight from a police officer, and resisting/obstructing a police officer.
Keistein Michell and Jasmine Beatty appeared in court in Meadow Lake on March 26.
