Joshua gets his games at Zeller's

CITY POLICE

NEWS RELEASES

************************* Shoplifting arrest

Twenty-four-year-old Joshua Bergamin of 56 Willow Avenue (main floor) was arrested by officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service yesterday afternoon at Zellers in the Station Mall after he allegedly attended at the store and stole 17 video games.

He was apprehended by store security and held for police.

He was charged with one count of theft under $5,000 and is to appear in court on the 22nd of November.

************************* Shoplifting arrest

Officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 52-year-old Rene Lamarche of 125 Gore Street yesterday at 3 p.m. at Rome’s Independent Grocers on Great Northern Road after he allegedly attended at the store and stole six steaks from the store.

He was apprehended by store security and held for police.

He has been charged with one count of possession of stolen property and one count of theft under $5,000 and is to appear in court on the 22nd of November. ************************* Outstanding warrant

Thirty-year-old Mark Lucio of #7-73 Northern Avenue was arrested on an outstanding warrant by officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service yesterday morning at the courthouse and charged with one count of failing to appear for prints.

He is to appear in court on the 22nd of November.

************************* Break and enter

Three storage buildings of a property in the 800 block of Old Goulais Bay Road were broken into over the past weekend. Two 5-gallon gas cans were reported stolen.

************************* Theft reports

- A purse was stolen from a shopping cart at the Metro Food Store on Northern Avenue yesterday at approximately 3:33 p.m. The suspect is a female in her 20s with blonde hair in a ponytail, a red sweatshirt with a black top underneath, burgundy track pants with ‘Aeropostale’on the back.

- A front licence plate was stolen from a vehicle parked in the 800 block of Queen Street East.

- A handicapped permit was stolen from a vehicle parked on Second Line West near Turner Avenue.

************************** Vehicle smash-and-grabs

Vehicles were broken into in a parking lot of a business on Great Northern Road near Second Line East, a school parking lot in the central part of the City and a parking lot in the 200 block of Northern Avenue. Two purses and one wallet were reported stolen.

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