-- From Times staff reporter Mike Carter:

Washington has the "Barefoot Bandit." Now Canada has its "Wrong Way Bandit."

Federal charges were filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle against a Canadian man for allegedly running the border in a stolen van because he got in the wrong lane.

Trevor Doyle told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he was just two weeks out of a Canadian jail on car theft charges when he stole a van and tried to drive it to White Rock, B.C., a town close to the U.S. Point of Entry at Blaine. Doyle got in the wrong lane, however, and wound up at the border crossing, with Border Patrol officers on either side of his car asking why he was traveling to the U.S.

Doyle, who said he didn't have a driver's license, reportedly swore at the officers when they asked him to turn off the car, and then tore through the checkpoint, according to charges filed Monday in U.S. District Court. An agent fired two shots at the car as it sped away, although Doyle wasn't hit.

He was arrested a few hours later near the abandoned van in Blaine.

Doyle reportedly told agents that he didn't blame the officer for shooting, because he was driving the van at him, according to the complaint. "Doyle said that he and the (Customs and Border Patrol) agent were now 'even' because, 'he could have killed me, and I could have killed him,' " the complain alleges.

Doyle was scheduled to make an appearance before a U.S. magistrate judge Monday afternoon.