Tuesday, July 2, 2002

MANY NOISY PARTIES
Over the weekend, the O.P.P. responded to several noisy party complaints both in the Echo Bay and Havilland Bay areas. One in particular involved the removal of 80 youths from the Pancake Bay Provincial Park Campground on Saturday morning.

Police also arrested one male driver after a traffic complaint from the Ojibway Park on Saturday morning.

LOADED GUN IN VEHICLE
Sunday at 5:00 p.m., the O.P.P. was called to investigate an erratic driving complaint on Highway 17 North in Aweres Township involving a firearm and two vehicles. The diver of one vehicle had picked up a hitchhiker who was known to the driver of the second vehicle. The driver of the second vehicle then began pointing what was believed to be a handgun at the occupants of the first vehicle when police arrived.

The second vehicle driver, Jamie Wilson, age 22, of Maretta Street in the Sault, was taken into custody and charged with numerous firearms offences including careless use of a firearm, pointing a firearm, posse