Police

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Sudbury Regional Police are investigating the bizarre circumstances behind the Dec. 30 death of a patient at St. Joseph's Health Centre on behalf of the Ontario Coroner's Office.

The RCMP have charged a Barrieman who is a former Measurement Canada Ontario director with 11 Criminal Code offences related to fraudulent use of government funds to buy hockey cards.

Greater Sudbury Police fined 4,426 drivers in 2004 for speeding. Many of these offences took place in areas where police frequently patrol such as Municipal Road 35 and Regional Road 80. The number has almost doubled from 2003.

In the early morning on Monday, Jan. 3, uniform members of the Greater Sudbury Police Service arrested two individuals in the South Shore Road area. The culprits were found to be in possession of a stolen truck, which was full of property.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] A Sudbury man who has fired four previous lawyers was told he might have to defend himself if he tried to delay his case by firing his fifth attorney.

Two St. Charles residents are believed dead after their farmhouse burned down early Monday morning. As of late Monday afternoon, police had not yet confirmed the identity of two bodies found at the 262 Casimir Rd. residence.

A 19-year-old Sudbury man suffered non life-threatening injuries after he was stabbed in the head while walking on Lloyd Street Monday night. This is Sudbury's first stabbing of the year.

A 27-year-old man of no fixed address has been charged with arson and numerous other charges in relation to a Christmas day fire on Pearl Street.

An admitted drug dealer was sentenced to 32 months in a federal penitentiary for his role in planning and executing a break and enter where 20 handguns were stolen from a residence and then sold to criminals.

A fire, which broke out on Wednesday in the Champlain Lodge located at 82 Ignatius Street took the life of a male resident. The fire started on the second floor in a room. It was contained to just the one room.