B.C. crime suspect attempts to flee RCMP on an ice floe

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 2:20 PM - A 25-year-old woman was able to temporarily evade RCMP in Prince George, B.C. Sunday by using an ice floe to flee the scene of a crime.

According to the CBC, the woman, identified as Philicity Rhea Lafrenier, floated for two kilometres down the Nechako River on a block of ice before she was caught by a police dog when the floe drifted by the shore.

"She was located on a piece of ice on the Nechako River, which, at the best of times, is a dangerous place, much less in the winter with all the ice," RCMP Corporal Craig Douglass told the news publication.

Things became even more dangerous when the woman started a fire on the ice she was floating on, Douglass says.

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"We believe she was trying to destroy evidence," he told the CBC.

Lafrenier has been charged with break and enter, mischief, possession of property obtained by crime, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and resisting arrest.

Police received a call Sunday afternoon when a homeowner returned home and found an intruder. The intruder fled the scene in a stolen car, drove to the river and jumped on the ice.

Douglass says her escape plan was "definitely a first."

"It's something we've never come across and probably never will again in our careers. We just shake our heads."

Source: CBC

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