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Officer’s grocery store trip ends with arrest

By Jeremy Shepherd

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Crime

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March 24, 2025

photo supplied Const. Sam Zacharias

A police officer walked in for an energy drink and walked out with a suspect.

A Port Moody officer had just started his shift when he stopped at an Inlet Centre grocery store at about 6:30 p.m. on Saturday and spotted a man: “wandering the aisles of the store, openly consuming liquor,” according to a statement from the department.

After detaining the suspect for having alcohol in public, the officer found the man was the subject of a province-wide arrest warrant for mischief charges.

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The suspect was arrested without an incident.

“We regularly arrest individuals on outstanding warrants, but the circumstances here were somewhat unique as the officer was just trying to purchase a caffeinated beverage and the wanted man’s illegal behaviour was so overt,” stated Port Moody Police Department spokesperson Const. Sam Zacharias in an email to the Dispatch.

Author

Jeremy Shepherd

A chiropractor and a folk singer, after having one great kid, decided to push their luck and have one more, a boy they named Jeremy Shepherd.

Shepherd grew up around Blue Mountain Park in Coquitlam, following a basketball around and trying his best to get to the NBA (it didn’t work out, at least not yet).

With no career plans after graduating Porter Elementary school, Jeremy Shepherd pursued higher education at Como Lake Middle School and eventually, Centennial High School.

Approximately 1,000 movies and several beers later in life, Shepherd made a change.

Having done nothing worth writing, he decided to see if he could write something worth reading.

Since graduating journalism school at Langara College, Shepherd has been a reporter, editor and, reluctantly, a content provider for community newspapers around Metro Vancouver for more than 10 years.

He worked with dogged reporters, eloquently indignant curmudgeons and creative photographers, all of whom shared a little of what they knew.

Now, as he goes about the business of raising two fascinating humans alongside a wonderful partner, Shepherd is delighted to report news and tell stories in the Tri-Cities.

He runs, reads, and is intrigued by art, science, smart cities and new ideas. He is pleased to meet you.