Charges have now been laid in connection with a report of a stolen logging tuck in the McLeese Lake area last month.
29-year old Davendra Lima is facing one count each of theft of a motor vehicle, flight from police, driving while prohibited and breach of a probation order.
Lima is due back in court in Williams Lake on January 8th for arraignment.
Quesnel RCMP received a report back on November 13th that a logging truck and trailer were stolen from a business on Quesnel Hixon Road early that morning.
Police say the trailer was located abandoned later that day, and the $65,000 logging truck was first spotted the following day in the morning on Highway 97 near Alexandria, and then later on in the McLeese Lake area.
RCMP say the suspect attempted to flee the scene in a stolen motorcycle but he was quickly apprehended with the help of the Williams Lake RCMP, RCMP air services and police dog services.
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