VERNON, B.C. - RCMP in Vernon, B.C. arrested a Thunder Bay man after a motorist crashed a stolen vehicle into the emergency room entrance of the local hospital.
Details of the July 23rd incident were released by the Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP detachment.
They charged 44-year-old Christian Talbot of Thunder Bay with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, mischief, and possession of property obtained by crime.
According to a news release from the Mounties, a car was driven through the ambulance emergency entrance at Vernon Jubilee Hospital just before dawn.
No one was injured in the incident.
Hospital security staff told officers sent to the scene that the driver had left the vehicle and had broken into an administrative building on the hospital property by smashing a window.
Police then began a search of the building and found the suspect hiding in a room.
Investigators reviewed closed-circuit security video as part of their investigation.
RCMP say the vehicle involved in the crash had been stolen in Winnipeg a week earlier.
