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Chase leaves police injured, several cars smashed

Two Greater Sudbury Police Service officers were injured in the late stages of a chase in the city's south end Monday morning. They were treated for minor injuries and released from St.

Two Greater Sudbury Police Service officers were injured in the late stages of a chase in the city's south end Monday morning.

They were treated for minor injuries and released from St. Joseph's Health Centre along with the man police eventually arrested in the Grumbler's parking lot on Regent Street.

The ordeal started when Cambrian Ford was broken into Monday morning, according to police. Stolen was a 2003 pickup.

Within 11 minutes, Crosstown Chevrolet and Sudbury Fine Cars were broken into as well, with a vehicle smashing through the front doors. Nothing was taken from either dealership.

While police attended to those calls, a fourth was received from a citizen whose vehicle had been sideswiped by a truck on The Kingsway.

The citizen followed the truck to Notre Dame Avenue, where the driver reversed and rammed the citizen's vehicle, causing ?extensive front-end damage,? according to police, then fled.

At about 10:11 am, patrol officers spotted the stolen Ford pickup on Regent Street. When a cruiser tried to pass the truck, the driver sideswiped it, again causing extensive damage.

Shortly thereafter, police pinned the vehicle in Grumbler's parking lot with their cruisers. Still trying to flee, police forced their way into the Ford truck, extracted the driver at gunpoint and arrested him.

A southern Ontario man is charged with three counts of break and enter, two counts of dangerous driving, fail to remain at the scene of an accident and resisting arrest.

He was to appear in bail court Tuesday morning.

A pair of unrelated break and enters took place over Thanksgiving as well.

Cathy's Confectionary on Frood Road was robbed of a quantity of cigarettes at about 5:30 pm Monday. Police are looking for a skinny male about 25 years old, 5-foot-nine. At the time of the robbery, he was wearing a dark grey hooded sweater, blue jeans ripped at the bottom, white running shoes and a white bandana over his face.

He fled, running west, and anyone with information is urged to contact police at 675-9171.

On Friday, police responded to a break and enter complaint in the Burton and Kelsey Street area. Once there, police were told a vehicle had been stolen at a separate complaint and began searching the area.

They eventually found the accused inside the site of a second break and enter.

Charged with two counts of break and enter, three counts of mischief under $5,000, theft under $5,000, resisting arrest, assaulting police and breach of probation is a youth protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

A bail hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.