One man has been arrested after a watery stand-off with emergency crews.
In the evening of Aug. 15, Innisfail RCMP were called to the Dodds Lake area of Innisfail where a suspicious male was going through residents back yards.
The male saw one of the owners of a residence and believed him to be a plain clothes police officer and jumped into the lake as he believed he was going to be arrested.
RCMP went to Dodds lake and found the male bobbing up and down in the middle of it. RCMP members attempted to get the male’s attention and have him swim to shore. The male yelled back that he had warrants and would rather drown than go back to jail.
The male had already been in the water for approximately 30 minutes. RCMP then called for assistance from Innisfail Fire/Rescue and Emergency Medical Services. Innisfail Fire deployed a rescue boat with RCMP in an attempt to rescue the male from the water.
When he was located, the man refused to get into the boat due to his warrants.
The man eventually complained about leg cramps and feeling dizzy from ingesting too much lake water and eventually conceded and was willing to go into the rescue boat. He was taken to shore for medical examination by EMS.
According to RCMP, the man was found to have no outstanding warrants. When advised of this he was angry as he had, ”done all that for nothing”.
He was however, on a 24 hour court ordered curfew and was arrested.
A 25-year-old male resident from Innisfail has been charged with failing to comply with a release order. He has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear at the Alberta Court of Justice in Red Deer on Sept. 11.
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