Around 5:30am, January 21, 2011, officers from the Dauphin Municipal RCMP detachment received a call about a pick-up truck that had just crashed into a snowbank at the corner of River Avenue and Valour Road in Dauphin.
Officers found the driver had fled on foot to a nearby residence before they arrived on scene. Officers located the suspect in the basement of the home and arrested him.
Investigators determined that the truck had been stolen from a home on Davidson Avenue West a short time earlier and that the suspect had tried to steal 3 other vehicles from the north end of Dauphin.
19-year-old Ryan Ralph Joseph Flett, of no fixed address, has been charged with 1 count of break and enter and 4 counts of theft Over $5000. Flett has been remanded in custody.
