City Police Beat

MAN ASSAULTED - DIES OF INJURIES The victim in last night's homicide on Connaught Avenue was Paul Christopher Rainone, 43 of 206 Breton Road, City police told a news conference today.

MAN ASSAULTS EX-GIRLFRIEND On the afternoon of July 13, the accused, a 44-year-old male was at a residence in the city's west end, where the victim, his ex-girlfriend lived.

FUGITIVE APPREHENDED A police standoff that lasted more than four hours outside a Shafer Avenue home last evening ended with the capture of Paul Jeffrey Whalen by heavily armed police.

ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO GAIN ENTRY TO HOME Yesterday at approximately 5:50 am, Donald Larente, age 20 of 21 Salisbury Avenue went to a home in the 0 to 100 block of Wellington Street West.

City Police Service reports a routine Saturday night. There were two people arrested for liquor-related offences and one person picked up for an attempted break & enter to a home on Wellington West. That offence occurred at 7:30 this morning.

MAN CHARGED WITH SEXUAL OFFENCES A 42-year-old male was picked up yesterday afternoon at 2:30 by City Police. He was apprehended without incident and charged with several sexual offences involving a minor.

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES LAID Early this morning, at 2:10, the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service was called to a west end delivery shop regarding a disturbance.

FORCIBLE CONFINEMENT & ASSAULT Yesterday at 2:10 p.m., officers from the Sault Ste Marie Police Service were called to an address in the 400 block of Albert Street West and arrested a 51-year-old male for assault and forcible confinement.

BUSY NIGHT FOR POLICE City Police were kept busy once again responding to numerous complaints of thefts from vehicles and theft of bicycles from all areas of the city.

YOUTHS HAD TAPE OVER THEIR MOUTHS Yesterday evening at 8:30, a citizen reported seeing a car on Great Northern Road with two adults in the front seat and four youths in the backseat.