City Police Beat

The City Police and the O.P.P. provide an excellent information service for the press from Monday to Friday but do not have information officers on duty on the weekends and do not issue press releases.

EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED PERSONS Police were busy yesterday assisting emotionally disturbed persons. Shortly after 1:00 p.m.

POLICE REMINDER The Traffic Services Section of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service wishes to remind motorists to stop for school buses that have their emergency red lights flashing. Sergeant J.

CLIMBING ACCIDENT VICTIM IDENTIFIED The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, having confirmed the notification of the next of kin, has released the name of the person killed in the Gros Cap Climbing accident yesterday.

ARRESTED & CHARGED WITH IMPAIRED DRIVING Yesterday at 4:35 pm, an off-duty police officer observed a lone male in a black Pontiac sedan doing donuts at the west end of Canal Road.

Good Morning. CAB DRIVER ROBBED On Saturday at approximately 5:30 am, a Robbery was reported to the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service. This incident involved a taxi driver working for 7500 Taxi and two male passengers.

BANK FRAUD The Thunder Bay police have contacted the Sault Ste. Marie police to warn the public about another scam that is making rounds again. The same fraudster hit both Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie last year with a similar description.

FALSE ALARM Three police cars, an ambulance and a fire truck converged on the intersection of Lake and Wellington Streets this morning at 7:30. A 9-1-1 caller had reported an individual slumped over in a vehicle.

ARGUMENT LEADS TO ARREST Yesterday at approximately 2:00 pm, the accused, Darin Schwemler, age 27 of 201 John Street, allegedly assaulted an adult female victim by grabbing her hair and left hand and pulling upward.

HIGH SCHOOL ASSAULT On the 17th of April 2003, at approximately 12:05 pm, the accused, a 16-year-old female from Franklin Street went to Ecole Notre-Dame-des-Grands-Lacs High School where she assaulted the victim, a 17-year-old female, by pulling her