Police

An arrest was made last week in connection with a string of break and enters dating back to November 1998. Twenty-eight of the incidents occurred in the former city limits, six in Blind River, two in Alban, two in Parry Sound and one in Markstay.

By Rick Pusiak Sudbury's forgotten strike literally heated up last week. A small wooden picket shed in the parking lot outside Marona Kitchen Manufacturing on Valley View Road burned to the ground Wednesday morning.

By Keith Lacey A Sudbury police constable will find out next Thursday if he will have to go on trial on one count of assaulting a drunk man with a flashlight 28 months ago. Const.

BY KEITH LACEY klacey@northernlife.

After investigating incidents where vehicles were struck by ice and snow flying off others on the road, the Ontario Provincial Police are warning motorists to clean off their vehicles before driving or face a $110 fine.

Greater Sudbury Police are requesting public assistance in locating 15-year-old Alexander McQuabbie who was last seen Dec. 28, 2005 at his residence on Bloor St.

The Ontario Provincial Police and the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) remind motorists to focus on safety while driving.

Officers of the Traffic Management Unit were out in force yet again this past weekend ensuring that people were not drinking and driving or driving erratically.

BY KEITH LACEY klacey@northernlife.ca The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services is conducting an investigation after a prisoner was inadvertently released after tricking jail guards at the Sudbury District Jail.

On Dec. 12, Greater Sudbury Police arrested 41-year-old Fidel Mombo MacKay on aggravated assault charges, alleging he withheld information about his HIV-positive status from his sexual partner.