Police

A Sunday night hit and run has the Sudbury detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police hunting for a white transport cab with no trailer attached. The truck crossed the centre line on Highway 69 at around 9 pm and hit a small car.

Police have arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of stabbing a man at the bus depot parking lot downtown Oct. 2. The suspect has been charged with aggravated assault.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] The executive director of a Sudbury group home now facing sexual assault allegations passed a government police check before being hired to work with children.

Const. Fern Benoit, president of the Sudbury Police Association, has announced that civilian and sworn members of the local police service are donating $3,000 to the Northern Ontario Medical Bursary Fund.

Greater Sudbury firefighters are gearing up for Fire Prevention Week 2005, complete with the theme ?use candles with care.? During Oct.

Greater Sudbury police executed a search warrant for two properties on Vermilion Lake Rd. in Chelmsford Thursday, discovering a pair marijuana grow operations.

Greater Sudbury police are asking owners of second hand stores to watch for clients trying to sell them laptop computers. A laptop computer was stolen Sept. 26 from a room at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Sudbury.

BY BILL BRADLEY [email protected] A visiting radiologist specializing in X-ray interpretation, is offering a reward of $5,000, no questions asked, for the return of his silver-coloured Eurocom laptop.

A 20 year-old Brampton man has been charged in the robbery of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Dowling Sept. 23. The man entered the bank demanding cash and told staff and people inside the bank he had a gun.

BY KEITH LACEY [email protected] A Sudbury man convicted of possessing images of ?girls engaged in vile and degrading sexual conduct? by male adult abusers was given a six-month jail sentence Monday.