Police

Greater Sudbury Police are requesting public assistance in identifying an unknown suspect believed to be responsible for a string of purse thefts in the city's south end. One purse was reported stolen from inside the House of Kin on Regent St.

BY KEITH LACEY Calling a Greater Sudbury police sergeant’s abilities on the job impressive and beyond reproach, a judge said the man was a “brute” behind closed doors who terrorized his ex-wife with physical, verbal and psychological assaults.

Thanks to a citizen's tip, Greater Sudbury Police were able to respond to an early morning break and enter in progress at the Jimi Mart in Coniston. When police arrived on scene at around 2:30 am, they found two culprits still inside the store.

Greater Sudbury Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy following a pellet gun shooting at a park behind the Capreol Arena.

A jury of eight men and four women has aquitted two local men of sexual assault causing bodily harm, but found them guilty of attempting to try and smuggle drugs by having a woman hide them inside her body.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] A hearing is underway to determine whether a local man with a lifelong history of criminal behaviour, including numerous convictions for violence, should be declared a dangerous offender.

The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) have awarded its Code of Silence Award to Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant for the excessive fees his department charges citizens, mostly journalists, to view and copy public court documents.

Although she’s worked behind a convenience store counter for three years, Aidan Mitchell says the fear of someone walking into the store, waving around a knife or gun and demanding money doesn’t ever go away.

BY KEITH LACEY An eight-man, four-woman jury will begin deliberations Thursday in a trial for two men charged with forcefully inserting packages filled with illicit drugs inside a woman to try to smuggle them into the Sudbury District Jail.

Two men have been arrested by Greater Sudbury police in connection with an early morning home invasion in the Minnow Lake area May 23.