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B&E suspect swims for it

A robbery suspect in Kamloops may have decided a swim was better than arrest as he tried to evade police early Wednesday morning.

RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie says officers were responding to reports of a break-in at the G&M Trailer Park about 6 a.m. when a man was tracked by a police dog to the nearby Thompson River.

She says the man was able to swim across, but remained in the water on the south shore, clinging to the remnants of an old dock as the Kamloops Fire and Rescue boat closed in.

Officers were eventually able to convince the 23-year-old to wade to shallow water and surrender so he could be taken to hospital for treatment of hypothermia.

He's expected to make a full recovery.

The suspect recently moved to B.C. and has numerous outstanding warrants out of Alberta and Manitoba.



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