City Police Beat

DIVER WARNING! City Police have received a complaint from the Captain of the Chief Shinwaulk. Local scuba divers in the area are staying underneath the tour boat when the Captain is trying to depart the dock. The water at the dock is approx.

VEHICLE BREAK INS. City police arrested three persons yesterday morning just before 6 a.m. relating to a rash of thefts from vehicles in the Ontario to Forest Ave. area in the city.

STOLEN PROPERTY Heather Mai Rivers 30 Oct. 1973 has been charged with possession of stolen property. She was observed by Police crossing Great Northern Rd. with an unopened V.C.R./D.V.D. box.

WEEKEND DRUG BUST City Police were kept busy this weekend. Police stopped a 1989 Chev Cavalier on Highway 17 North. The vehicle was stopped and subsequently searched. Located in the vehicle was 8.

DANGEROUS FUGITIVE ARRESTED Yesterday at 9:17 p.m., Robert George Poole, age 47, was arrested without incident by members of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service. He was arrested at 130 Albert Street West where it is believed he had been staying.

4x4 Stolen. City Police are investigating the theft of a red 1998 BIG BEAR 4X4 Yamaha 4 wheeler. It was take from the 500 block of Walls Rd. in Prince Township. It is believed the 4wheeler was taken sometime between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

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.