One person has been arrested following a break-in at a landfill site near Bruce Mines on Sunday afternoon.
Video footage was captured of the incident, and a television was reported stolen by an individual who fled the scene in a cube van, says a news release issued by East Algoma OPP.
The cube van was located a short time later and the driver, 44-year-old Travis Simons, was arrested.
Full text of the release follows:
Individual caught on video stealing a television from local landfill site.
On Feb. 26, 2023 shortly after 4 p.m., members of the from the East Algoma detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a break and enter at a local landfill site on East Line Road in Plummer Additional Township. The complainants had video footage of the break and enter.
A cube van was stopped briefly by the complainants and left the scene at a high rate of speed. The cube van was seen travelling westbound on Highway 638 and turned onto Wiers Road that came to a dead end in MacDonald-Meredith-Aberdeen-Additional Township.
East Algoma OPP with the assistance from Sault Ste. Marie OPP arrived on Wiers Road a short time later and subsequently arrested the driver of the cube van.
As a result, Travis Simons, 44 years of age from the Municipality of Huron Shores, was charged with:
• Possession property obtained by crime under $5,000
• Theft under $5,000
• Break, enter a place - commit indictable offence
• Driving while under suspension (two counts)
The accused appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice in Sault Ste. Marie on Feb. 27, 2023.