Friday, January 14, 2005

Goulais River, Ont. - A man arrested for an early-morning break and enter yesterday morning now faces more charges after giving police a false name.

Yesterday morning at 6 a.m. the man was arrested for an early morning break and enter into a garage on Kelly Creek Road in Goulais River.

During the investigation the accused continually gave police a name that turned out to be false. The licence plates on the vehicle that the accused was operatingwere stolen and a second set of licence plates found in the vehicle was also stolen
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When officers searched the man they found an Ontario driver's licence that had also been reported stolen. The investigation also revealed the man had been charged by the Sault Ste Marie City Police in December of 2004 when he was found operating the same vehicle with yet another set of stolen licence plates.

At that time he falsely identified himself to police using the same false name that he gave OPP officers. Members of the OPP Forensic Identification Unit examined the fingerprints of the man.
The fingerprints were sent to the RCMP in Ottawa.

The accused was eventually identified as twenty nine year old Jansen David PAPPIN of Gore Street in Sault Ste Marie.
Mr. Pappin now faces numerous charges under a variety of Acts.
Sault Ste Marie OPP have charged him with two counts of Break and Enter, Six counts of Possession of Stolen Property, Obstruct Police, Possession of Break in Tools, Two counts of Driving a Motor Vehicle with no Insurance, Using Plates not Authorized for the Vehicle and Driving A Motor Vehicle with no Licence.
Mr. Pappin will appear in Sault Ste Marie bail court this morning.