Several Arrests on Thursday

March 5, 2010

Owen Sound Police Officers made several arrests yesterday for people wanted in unrelated incidents.

A 32-year-old Owen Sound male who recently returned to the city was arrested without incident downtown Thursday shortly after noon.  An arrest warrant had been taken out for the male after he attended another male’s apartment on Tuesday morning, kicking in the door and assaulting the occupant.  The accused was looking for an ex-girlfriend who was in the apartment and had left the scene before police were notified.

The victim received injuries to his face including bruising, swelling, and a bloody nose but he did not seek medical attention.  Approximately $400 in damages were done to the apartment during the break-in.

Kevin Roger Gagnon was held in custody overnight and taken to the Owen Sound Courthouse for a bail hearing this morning, charged with Break, Enter and Commit, as well as once count of Assault.  There are also outstanding warrants for Mr. Gagnon held by the Waterloo Regional Police Service and the Windsor Police Service.

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A 49-year-old Bruce County woman was arrested yesterday without incident for outstanding warrants.

A uniformed Owen Sound Police Officer stopped the female for a Highway Traffic Act offence and a check revealed there were outstanding warrants for her arrest; one held by the Owen Sound Police Service and one by the South Bruce O.P.P. Detachment.  While both warrants are for similar offences they are from unrelated incidents.

For several months the female has been telephoning her ex-husband and his elderly mother who live in Owen Sound.  In the last two weeks of February alone, the female has left 16 voice messages which have caused the victims to fear for their own safety as well as other family members.

The woman was held in custody overnight and taken to the Owen Sound Courthouse for a bail hearing this morning, charged with five counts of Criminal Harassment and three counts of Harassing Telephone Calls.

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An Owen Sound woman who thought she was doing a good deed ended up being victimized by her former high school friend.

The accused, a 23-year-old Owen Sound female went to her former friend and asked her to cash some cheques for her as she needed to purchase some items for her child.  What the victim did not know, until contacted by her financial institution, was the accused had written the five cheques, totalling over $1,500 on someone else’s closed chequing account.

Further investigation by the Criminal Investigation Branch identified two other cheques written on the same account that the accused forged and fraudulently deposited into her own account at a different financial institution. 

The accused was arrested yesterday and charged with seven counts each of Uttering a Forged Document and Fraud Under $5,000, plus one count of Possession of Property Obtained by Crime.  She was released on a Promise to Appear and an Officer-in-Charge Undertaking with certain conditions.  She is to attend Court in Owen Sound on the 25th of March, 2010 to answer the charges.
 

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