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Greater Sudbury Overall Crime Severity Index Down 4.3 Percent
[778 words] 8/8/2022 10:13am
Every year, Statistics Canada issues a Crime Severity Index (CSI) report for Census Metropolitan Areas across Canada. The CSI is a measure of Police-reported crime that reflects the seriousness of offences by assigning a weighted value to crime types with a higher value being given to more serious crimes. For the first time since 2015, the overall CSI in Greater Sudbury is down. Between 2020 and 2
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Police Stall Car Thief After Being Steered in the Right Direction
[366 words] 6/2/2020 6:58am
On May 28, 2020 members our Break Enter and Robbery (B.E.A.R.) Unit received information of a suspicious transaction attempt at a local luxury car dealership by an individual purchasing a vehicle valued at $77,000. The police investigation subsequently revealed that the vehicle was being purchased with counterfeit identification. Through collaboration with our Financial Crimes Unit, further invest
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Woman Charged After Forging Documents for Fentanyl Patches With Street Value of Over $1.5M
[323 words] 12/11/2019 8:45am
In May of 2018, the Greater Sudbury Police Service Financial Crimes Unit launched an investigation into an employee at a local pharmacy after concerns were brought forward by a co-worker. Through the investigation it was determined that between May 2016 and May 2018, the employee fabricated and forged over 225 non-existent prescriptions by entering falsified data into the pharmacy’s computer manag