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A 33-year-old man who lead police on a chase across Saskatoon in a stolen work truck, driving through a park and hitting two police vehicles, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

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In Saskatoon provincial court on Tuesday, Kaz Daigneault pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including assaulting a police officer, robbery, mischief, dangerous driving and breaching probation.

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It’s connected to a series of events that began at 6:40 a.m. on July 9, 2025, and ended with Daigneault being forced off the road roughly two hours later near the Valley Road off-ramp.

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Reading an agreed statement of facts, Crown prosecutor Monique Lambert-Wignes said Daigneault stole a cab and drove it into the front of a convenience store in the 1500 block of 22nd Street West. The cab driver said the man assaulted him before taking his car.

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Two store employees said the same man became belligerent after they told him to turn down music he was playing on a portable speaker and to leave his bicycle outside the store.

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Daigneault stole some items, including cash from the register. Police found his cell phone at the scene and also identified him using surveillance video.

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An hour later, Daigneault approached a work crew at Wiggins Avenue and Cascade Street in the city’s Adelaide-Churchill area, where he stole a sewer work truck, driving off as items flew out the back.

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“(The worker) had his back to the vehicle when he heard the truck being put in gear,” Lambert-Wignes said.

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Before police tracked him down, Daigneault tried to steal another vehicle from a woman on Calder Crescent. Court heard he got into the car and tried to take her keys, but went back to the sewer truck when she ran away.

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Over the next two hours, Daigneault drove through downtown and residential neighborhoods, including through school zones in the heavy morning traffic, before police tried to stop him at Coy Avenue and Taylor Street.

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Daigneault briefly pulled over before taking off, again.

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Court heard that on Kilburn Avenue, he reversed the truck and hit a police vehicle. On a video played in court, Daigneault was seen hitting another police vehicle on Avenue C.

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That officer fired three shots at the stolen truck as his vehicle started to lift off the ground.

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“(The officer) was approximately pushed one city block before his vehicle was dislodged from the front end of the stolen truck,” Lambert-Wignes said.