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ELMSDALE:<\/strong> A 31-year-old Trois Ruisseaux, N.B. man has been charged with a slew of offence after an investigation of numerous motor vehicle thefts in East Hants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n East Hants RCMP Community Policing Officer Const. Preston Burns said police received a report that a man had attempted to steal a tow truck from a business in Elmsdale on December 27, at approximately 5:10 am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The man arrived at the business driving a dump truck and fled in the same vehicle,” said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said a short time later, officers responded to a report that a pickup truck had been stolen from a residential property in Lantz, and that a dump truck had been left at the property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The dump truck matched the description of the one that was seen at the business in Elmsdale,” he said. “Through further investigation, officers learned that the dump truck had been stolen in Memramcook, N.B. earlier the same day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Const. Burns said over the next several days, further reports of thefts and break and entering, believed to involve the same man, were received in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n On January 7, East Hants District RCMP members were actively patrolling the Elmsdale business park at approximately 1130 pm and observed a silver Ford F-150 being driven by a man matching the suspect\u2019s description. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Officers attempted a traffic stop on the vehicle, but the driver refused to stop,” said Const. Burns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “After a brief pursuit through the business park, officers safely arrested the driver on Highway 102 in Lantz.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travis William Blanchard,\u00a031, of Trois Ruisseaux, New Brunswick has been charged with numerous criminal code offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The offences include but are not limited to: Breaking and Entering; Possession of Property Obtained by Crime; Theft over $5,000; Theft under $5,000; and Flight from a Peace Officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Blanchard has been remanded and was scheduled to appear in Truro Provincial Court on the morning of Jan. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n File#: 2024-31940<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”115″] [adrotate banner=”78″] ELMSDALE: A 31-year-old Trois Ruisseaux, N.B. man has been charged with a slew of offence after an investigation of numerous motor vehicle thefts in East Hants. East Hants RCMP Community Policing Officer Const. Preston Burns said police received a report that a man had attempted to steal a tow truck from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[196,1581,986,5958,1723,2018,1734,1077,14,2399],"class_list":["post-41884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-rcmp","tag-elmsdale","tag-memramcook","tag-moncton","tag-n-b","tag-new-brunswick","tag-nova-scotia","tag-rcmp","tag-vehicle-thefts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}