Mounties are touting their ability to successfully protect Manitoba’s border with the U.S. The RCMP says a plane equipped with thermal imaging was patrolling the border on the evening of Jan. 14 when it spotted six individuals heading towards Manitoba – about 15 kilometres east of Emerson.

On Tuesday morning, a man crossing the border into Coutts was referred to a secondary inspection area, from which he fled. After the driver was located near Raymond, Alta., about 80 kilometres north of Coutts, he kept driving north to Lethbridge, before heading back to Raymond where he was seen holding a gun, police said.