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Man Tries To Steal Car With Undercover Surrey Police Officers Inside

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Nov, 2015 12:24 PM

SURREY, B.C. — Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say a would-be carjacker is in jail after picking the worst-possible vehicle to try and steal.

Police say a man approached a car at a city intersection Monday evening and tried to pull the driver out of his seat with a goal of stealing the vehicle.

But the man's plans went awry — the vehicle was an unmarked police car and the two occupants were undercover officers, who identified themselves and then arrested the man.

A male tried to carjack two of our biggest, burliest plainclothes officers in an unmarked pc last night. #fail pic.twitter.com/yAjPzq06Cs
— Surrey RCMP (@SurreyRCMP) November 10, 2015

Surrey RCMP spokesman Cpl. Scotty Schumann says the officers are both big, burly men and don't look like the kind of guys anyone would want to pick a flight with.

Schumann says the suspect got the ride he wanted, but probably not to the location he was planning.

Twenty-five-year-old Kyle Blair, of Penticton, B.C., is in custody and faces possible charges of robbery and breach of probation.

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