Monday, March 3, 2003

EARLY MORNING "SMASH AND GRAB"
Echo Bay, Ont.,

Sault Ste Marie OPP are investigating a break and enter that happened early this morning in Echo Bay.

At about 1:00 this morning officers from the Sault Ste Marie OPP detachment were called to an Echo Bay gas bar after an alarm was activated. Officers arrived to find the front door smashed and merchandise missing from the interior of the gas bar.

Preliminary investigation has indicated that a quantity of cigarettes and phone cards have been stolen. The owners of the business are conducting a detailed inventory of the gas bar to determine exactly what was stolen.

So far no arrests have been made in this investigation and the property has not been recovered.


DRUGS AND GUNS SEIZED IN GOULAIS RIVER RAID
Goulais River, Ont.,

Sault Ste Marie OPP, the Joint Forces Drug Unit and Conservation Officers from the Ministry of Natural Resources combined their efforts with a search warrant on a Goulais River home late Friday.

Late Friday afternoon the three agencies executed a search warrant at a home on Bye's Side Road in Goulais River. The occupants of the house were not at home when the raid took place.

A search of the home turned up a quantity of Cannabis Resin (hash oil) with an estimated value of $1600.00. Officers also located and seized guns and ammunition that were not properly stored.

Officers have not been able to locate the occupants of the house since the raid.


UNINVITED HOUSE GUEST
Batchawana First Nation, Ont.

A resident of the Batchawana First Nation woke up early Sunday morning to find an unknown man stumbling around the inside of his house.

At about 3:30 a.m. on Sunday the home owner on Nebenaigoching Street heard someone in his home. He got up to find a man, unknown to the home owner, had entered his house.

Police arrived and took the twenty-year-old male into custody. No one was injured in this incident and no property was removed.

Twenty-year-old Jason Kekegamic of the Batchawana First Nation will appear in bail court this afternoon. He is charged with Unlawfully Being in a Dwelling house and Trespass by Night.