Meth drove sharp rise in 'evade police' incidents last year

Austin Eaglechief died in an explosion of bent steel and broken glass on a warm night last June, as he led Saskatoon police officers on a high-speed chase across Saskatoon’s north end.
The apparently drug-fuelled incident began shortly after 9 p.m. on June 19, 2017, when officers tried to stop the stolen pickup driven by the 22-year-old man on a quiet cul-de-sac in River Heights.
It ended just a few minutes later — after Eaglechief rammed the police cruiser, after one of the officers