Nanaimo Crown requests 10 years for ‘prolific, incorrigible and chronic’ offender
NANAIMO — A prolific offender will spend a significant amount of time behind bars after his sentencing hearing.
Tyler Fong, 33, previously pleaded guilty to 20 charges, stemming from drug possession, breaking and entering, two high-speed chases with police and escaping custody. He appeared at Provincial Court in Nanaimo with his family on Thursday.
According to the facts presented in the hearing, in early 2015 Fong fled from a Duncan house he’d broke into, leading North Cowichan Duncan RCMP on a lengthy chase, blowing red lights and driving into oncoming traffic. He escaped since RCMP had to pull back since it was deemed too dangerous to pursue.
The next day around noon, he was spotted in a parking lot in Nanaimo. RCMP boxed his car in, but he rammed the police cruisers out of the way while officers tried to arrest him. The chase stretched from the parking lot onto the Duke Point Highway.