Stolen credit card used in attempt to buy Halloween get-up

CITY POLICE

NEWS RELEASES

************************* Wal-Mart purse theft

Investigation services and patrol officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 24-year-old Ryan Wills of 627 Shafer Avenue yesterday afternoon at the police station and charged him with one count of theft under $5,000, one count of possession of stolen property and three counts of possession and use of a stolen credit card.

It is alleged that on Saturday the 16th of October just after 7:30 p.m., the accused stole a purse from a shopping cart of a shopper at the Wal-Mart store.

The accused then took possession of the victim’s credit card taken from her purse and attempted to use it at the Zellers store on Northern Avenue for a purchase of approximately $300 including a $200 prepaid cell phone, a $50 calling card and a $50 Halloween costume.

At this point the credit card was declined and the accused left the store.

He then proceeded to the Canadian Tire Gas bar and made two purchases using the victim’s credit card.

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

************************* Shoplifting Officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 44-year-old Geoffrey Chamings of 613 Queen Street West (upstairs) last evening at Zellers in the Station Mall after he allegedly attended at the store and stole some items.

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

Officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 31-year-old Amy Lecompte of #9-110 Wilding Avenue last evening at Joe’s No Frills on Korah Road after she allegedly attended at the store last night and stole some items.

She has been charged with one count of theft under $5.000 and is to appear in court on the 22nd of November.

************************ Outstanding warrant

Thirty-two-year-old Rachel Day of 126 Bruce Street (upstairs) was arrested on an outstanding warrant by officers Sault Ste. Marie Police Service last evening.

She has been charge with one count of fail to appear in court.

She is now to attend in court on the 22nd of November.

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

- A residence on Bloor Street West was entered yesterday. Nothing was reported taken.

- An attempt break and enter was reported to a building in the 100 block of East Street.

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

- Two vehicles were reported entered on West Dunrobin Bay, and Fifth Line East. A wallet, an iPod, a Dell XPS laptop, a packsack and change were reported stolen.

- A U-Haul parked at a local hotel of Great Northern Road was entered and a suitcase was reported stolen.

- A bike was stolen from Terry Fox Place.

- Licence plates were taken from a vehicle on Clearview Drive.

************************* Mischief - An election sign on Elizabeth was reported vandalized.

- If you have any information regarding these crimes, or any other crime, please call at Crime Stoppers at 942-7867 or 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), submit an e-tip from the Crime Stoppers web site at www.saultcrimestoppers.com or text keyword SSM with your tip to 274637. ************************** 2010 Police Services of Algoma crime prevention seminar

Youth are our future: Stop the violence

The Sault Ste. Marie Police Services will be hosting the 27th annual Crime Prevention Seminar on Friday the 29th of October.

For 27 years now, Police Services across the District of Algoma and some of the local service clubs have sponsored this one-day event.

This year’s seminar, entitled Youth are our future: Stop the violence, will be focusing on youth crime and youth violence.

Among young people, the violent crime rate increased 12 percent during the past decade, and since 1991, it has risen 30 percent.

By 2008, youth accused of violent offences accounted for nearly one-quarter of all apprehended youth. This is an enormous area of concern in our society today.

Our keynote speaker this year is Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman.

Lt. Col. Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and speaker who is one of the world's foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman was a West Point psychology professor, professor of military science, and an army ranger who is the author of On Combat, Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill and On Killing (which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize).

Col. Grossman’s research was cited by the president of the United States in a national address, and he has testified before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Congress, and numerous state legislatures.

He was involved in counselling, recovery and court cases in the aftermath of the Jonesboro, Paducah, Springfield, and Littleton school massacres.

He wrote the entry on Aggression and Violence in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict and has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Today he is the director of the Killology Research Group, and in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is has written and spoken extensively on the terrorist threat, with articles published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Civil Policy and many leading law enforcement journals, and he has been on the road almost 300 days a year, training elite military and law enforcement organizations worldwide about the reality of combat.

The one-day event is scheduled to take place at the Marconi Club.

The seminar will start at 8:45 a.m. sharp and conclude at approximately 4 p.m.

Members of the public are invited.

The cost of the seminar is $30 which includes a buffet lunch.

You must be registered to attend.

The registration deadline is this Friday the 22nd of October at 3 p.m.

To register contact Sergeant Lisa Kenopic at 705-949-6300 extension 333 or e-mail at [email protected]

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