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Beware of Rental Scams - Scammers Posting Units They Do Not Own

We advise community members to be vigilant when looking for and putting down money on rental apartments.

We continue to receive reports of individuals being scammed on sites such as Facebook Marketplace and Rentals.ca, where scammers are posting units that they do not actually own.

The scammer will talk the victim into putting a monetary deposit on the rental unit before physically seeing it in person. When the victim attends the apartment afterward, they discover it was never actually available.

Requesting assistance to locate driver and vehicle involved in fail to remain on Third Avenue

UPDATE
The driver at the time of the incident has been identified and the vehicle involved in collision has been located, a Subaru Forester.

The driver of the vehicle has been issued a part III summons under the Highway Traffic Act for Fail to Remain.

We would like to thank the public for the assistance with this matter.

ORIGINAL

Just after 6:35 a.m. this morning, April 17, 2024, officers were dispatched to a motor vehicle collision on Third Avenue in Greater Sudbury.

Information provided was that at...

60-year-old man charged with numerous sexual violence-related offences

On April 9, 2024, Detectives from the Integrated Crime Section of our Criminal Investigation Division began an investigation into an individual believed to have committed numerous historical sexual violence-related offences against individuals under the age of 18.

Detectives arrested and charged 60-year-old, Marcel Armstrong with the following offences under the Criminal Code of Canada;

• Sexual Assault
• Publication of Intimate Images without Consent
• Voyeurism x2
• Possession of Child Pornography
• Makes,...

OPP-led GNG Enforcement Team and GSPS DEU seize nearly half a kilogram of Cocaine

Two individuals have been charged after a search warrant was executed at a residence on Ontario Street in Sudbury by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-led Provincial Joint Forces Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team (PGNG) and the Greater Sudbury Police Service (GSPS) Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU).

The following items were seized:

• nearly half a kilogram of cocaine
• $2,440 in Canadian currency
• six cell phones
• drug trafficking paraphernalia·

23-year-old, Ayman Abdulkhalik of Etobicoke has been charged with:

Barricaded person taken into custody without incident in Wahnapitae

Around 11:45 a.m. on April 10, 2024, officers were dispatched to a residence in Wahnapitae in relation to an individual wanted for a Robbery that occurred on April 5, 2024 at an establishment on Lasalle Boulevard.

When officers arrived on scene, the individual barricaded himself inside the residence.

Patrol officers made multiple attempts to establish communications with the individual inside the residence, however the individual would not respond to police.

Around 12:35 p.m., members of our...