Two people who crashed through an RCMP road block and led police on a chase through the northern Saskatchewan bush for several hours are facing numerous charges.

La Ronge RCMP were notified Tuesday afternoon by Montreal Lake police that a grey, four-door car travelling north on Highway 2 at excessive speeds was entering their jurisdiction. Police determined the vehicle was associated with 18-year-old Jordan Malcolm Desjarlais, a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for charges in Calgary.

RCMP set up a road block at 3 p.m. about 15 kilometres south of La Ronge using three unmarked and unoccupied police cars, with their lights flashing. A spike belt was placed across Highway 2 shortly past the road block.

Officers were positioned outside the police cruisers.

The suspect vehicle sped up as it approached the road block, according to La Ronge RCMP, and one officer fired a shot at the car. No one was injured by the shot.

The driver, alleged to be Desjarlais, attempted to dodge the cruisers but struck one vehicle in the front left corner, causing extensive damage. He continued on Highway 2 before driving over the spike belt. The car hit the ditch 300 metres past the belt and two occupants, a male and female, fled the scene on foot.

They ran into the bush line along the highway as officers secured the area and awaited a Prince Albert RCMP canine unit.

Police and conservation officers on snowmobiles located the suspects several hours later, at 7 p.m., in the bush east of Potato Lake. The pair was transported on snowmobile to an RCMP vehicle before they were moved to La Ronge Hospital as a precaution.

A 16-year-old girl, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged with resisting arrest and breaking conditions of her release — related to a Red Deer, Alberta incident — in connection with the chase.

Desjarlais, wanted in Calgary for forcible confinement, assault with a weapon, possession of a dangerous weapon, uttering threats and assault charges, was arrested on numerous charges.

He was charged with vehicle theft, wilful mischief endangering life, resisting a peace officer, dangerously operating a vehicle, failing to stop while being pursued by a peace officer, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and three counts of assaulting a peace officer with a weapon — the vehicle he was driving.

The pair appeared in La Ronge provincial court Thursday morning.