2 charged after ramming into police cruisers in eastern Alberta

Two people have been charged after ramming into police cruisers in eastern Alberta. (Supplied)

Two people face multiple charges after ramming into a police cruiser in the County of Vermillion River last week.

A Tuesday news release said Mounties responded to an abandoned vehicle shortly before 4 p.m. on Jan. 15 at an oil site along Township Road 492.

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Officers saw a grey sedan and a black pickup truck with no licence plate at the scene. A woman driving the pickup intentionally rammed into a stationary cruiser with an officer inside, disabling both the truck and the cruiser.

The woman and a man got into the sedan and attempted to flee, but got stuck in the snow. They then fled on foot heading through a field to a nearby unoccupied rural home. The home was broken into and the two suspects stole a white SUV from the garage, said the release.

Another officer arrived at the home. As the male suspect reversed the SUV out of the garage, he collided into the passenger side of the officer’s cruiser.

As the suspects fled the scene, they nearly crashed with a third police vehicle when the suspects attempted to turn north onto Range Road 14.

The SUV eventually got stuck in deep snow. Police said the man fled on foot heading northeast where he was shortly thereafter apprehended. The woman was also arrested.

Police say the investigation revealed that both “prolific offenders” breached several conditions of their various release orders.

The 34-year-old man of Mannville, Alta., and the 29-year-old woman of Waseca, Sask., face numerous charges including two counts of assault on a police officer, property obtained by crime, break and enter into a residence, and theft of a motor vehicle.

Both officers rammed in the incident suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were treated in hospital and released.

RCMP say statistics show an increase in police vehicle ramming leading to injuries with seven reported in 2023 and 15 reported in 2024. There have been six police vehicles intentionally rammed in 2026.