Police

Greater Sudbury police are investigating a string of mischief to vehicles in the John, Elizabeth and Ramsey Road areas surrounding the East end of Bell Park that occured overnight on July 13-14.

Richard Jutras, 38, received a suspended sentence and 18 months? probation after pleading guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice earlier this week to assault causing bodily harm, threatening and arson causing property damage.

It?s the end of the road for a Val Caron man after he received a lifetime ban on driving following numerous drunk driving and other driving-related offenses.

On July 9, Greater Sudbury Police charged Rudolph Fleischman, 60, of York Street in Sudbury with possession of child pornography.

Kwong S. Wu, 31, from London, pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating the federal Radio Communications Act after he was caught selling illegal satellite TV equipment in a downtown mall in September 2003.

A former Sudbury resident, Paul Leblanc, 38, was killed in a truck accident at the Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] A local man who defrauded more than $11,000 from Ontario Works was sentenced to one year of house arrest and ordered to repay the money stolen from Ontario taxpayers over a five-year period.

A young man with a long record despite his young age was sentenced to six months in jail Friday. Norman Beaucage, 23, pleaded guilty to forging the signature on time sheets at his workplace, stealing a van and failing to appear for court.

Muriel Lachance was killed in an accident near the Mr. Gas gas bar in Wahnapitae Friday afternoon. The woman, 66, slammed into a transport as she exited the Mr Gas.

A Sudbury mining company has been found guilty of failing to properly train a worker who was killed on the job more than two years ago.