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DEU seizes illicit drugs and counterfeit money during search warrant on Burton Avenue

This morning, June 14, 2024, Detectives from the Greater Sudbury Police Service Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) concluded an investigation regarding individuals believed to be trafficking illicit drugs in Greater Sudbury.

As a result of the investigation, Detectives from the Integrated Crime Section of our Criminal Investigation Division, along with the assistance of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU), K9 Unit and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-led Provincial Guns & Gangs Enforcement Team...

75 Charges Laid in Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Blitz

From June 10th-12th, 2024, the Greater Sudbury Police Traffic Management Unit conducted a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) safety blitz in partnership with Ontario Provincial Police T.I.M.E. and the Ministry of Transportation. 

The results were as follows:

• Level 1 CVSA Inspections: 43
• Level 2 Inspections: 4
• Inspections Under 4500 kg: 12
• Total Inspections: 59

12 Commercial Motor Vehicles were taken out of service due to reasons such as: brakes inoperable, wrong class of licence, damaged trailer...

23-year-old arrested and charged with Attempt Murder after dangerous driving incident on Kathleen St

Around 6:35 a.m. on June 1, 2024, officers were dispatched to Kathleen Street in relation to a traffic complaint. Information provided was that an individual driving a grey sedan, drove the vehicle over a curb into a parking lot and attempted to enter an establishment on foot, however the business was closed. The individual got back into the vehicle and abruptly left the parking lot at a high rate of speed, once again driving over the curb.

A short time later, the same vehicle was seen...

UPDATE - Ground search in New Sudbury - Missing person 48-year-old Catherine "Wendy"

UPDATE 2

The Greater Sudbury Police Service continues to ask for the public’s assistance in locating missing person, 48-year-old, Catherine “Wendy”.

This afternoon, members of Patrol Operations, Criminal Investigations, Search and Rescue, Emergency Response, K9 and North Shore Search and Rescue will be conducting a ground search in the wooded area off Madeleine Avenue, Lasalle Boulevard and Arthur Street as Catherine “Wendy” was last seen in that area just before 4:00 p.m. on May 1, 2024.

There...

Police investigating threat at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School

UPDATE

As a result of the investigation into the threats complaint at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School, officers have identified the individual believed to be responsible for the message written in a bathroom in the school.

The student has been arrested and charged with Uttering Threats and Mischief. Based on prior involvement under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), the youth has been released on an undertaking with a court date of July 4, 2024.

The identity of the youth is protected under the...