Alberta RCMP nab suspect in bank robbery attempt using tanker truck

CROSSFIELD, Alta. — RCMP in southern Alberta have arrested a suspect after someone tried to break into a bank by driving a large tanker truck into it.

Mounties from the Airdrie rural detachment were called to Crossfield, north of Calgary, about an attempted robbery.

They met the suspect tanker truck on the highway, but it failed to stop for them.

A police pursuit went through two towns before the truck continued northbound in the southbound lanes of the main highway between Edmonton and Calgary.