OPP Cruiser Damaged in Repatriation

An OPP cruiser was damaged during yesterday’s repatriation ceremony for two Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan yesterday. The military plane carrying Master Corporal Kristal Giesebrecht and Private Andrew Miller arrived at C-F-B Trenton and as the procession was making its way down the Highway of Heroes….a woman struck a parked OPP cruiser on the 4-0-1 at Neilson Road in Scarborough. The woman suffered minor injuries. The 57-year old (Vijayaluxmy Seenivasagam) is charged with careless driving.

Two Injured in Carrying Place Fire

A home is destroyed and two people have been injured in an early morning blaze in Carrying Place. Quinte West Fire Chief John Whelan says two people were taken to Trenton Memorial Hospital with injuries after the blaze at 61 Roseland Drive just after 2 o’clock this morning. Chief Whelan says firefighters are dealing with a stubborn roof at the home. It’s believed the blaze started in the basement and quickly spread to the rest of the house.

Funeral arrangements for Myles Morton

Funeral arrangements have now been completed for the owner of the Quinte Broadcasting Radio Group, and patriarch of the Morton family…Myles Morton.

Morton died at Belleville General Hospital Tuesday morning. The 85-year old was the longtime owner of CJBQ, Mix 97 and Rock 107. He was the former owner of the Intelligencer newspaper and the local cable company, Cablevue. Morton had been in declining health for the past year and passed away early this morning. Known for his incredible sense of humour and generous philanthropy throughout the community…Myles Morton was a family man…married to Elizabeth and father to Bill, Steve, Cynthia and Virginia.

Visitation is at Burke’s Funeral Home in Belleville from 2 to 6 PM on Monday July 5. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 A.M. on Tuesday July 6, at Bridge Street United Church.

School Fraud

A volunteer for a Napanee area elementary school has been charged with fraud.
Napanee OPP have charged 34 year old Cathy Babcock, of Kingston, with fraud over 5 thousand dollars.
Police became involved when the Limestone District School Board complained about money being missing from a voluntary organization with the Centreville Public School.
Cathy Babcock was a former treasurer of the school’s parent advisory council.
She appears in Napanee court on July 20th.

Violent Sexual Assault Search

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Police have issued a warrant for a Peterborough, man who is wanted in connection with a violent sexual assault.

Investigators allege a man broke into a 21-year-old woman’s apartment and assaulted her at knifepoint.

Police allege the man then forced the woman to drive them in her vehicle to Durham Region, and that the suspect fled after they were involved in a crash in Whitby, just east of Toronto.

A warrant has been issued for 25-year-old Brandon Michael McLean on charges that include sexual assault with a weapon, kidnapping, and forcible confinement.

He’s described as white with a pale complexion, 6-foot-2, 180 pounds, blue eyes, short blonde hair and a tattoo on one shoulder showing a bulldog tearing an American flag.

Police say McLean has ties to the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Oshawa and Brighton.

Charge Against Stirling Company

The Ministry of Environment has laid a pollution charge against the Stirling Creamery company.
There was an accidental diesel fuel spill at Stirling Creamery on January 18th, with much of it ending up in Rawdon Creek.
The company appears in court on July 27th.

Tweed man convicted on weapons charges

A man from Tweed has been sentenced to ten months in jail for weapons offences.

Twenty-eight-year-old Michael Juby was arrested by the O-P-P’s Provincial Weapons Enforcement Unit after seven firearms were seized in Madoc on March 18th.

He was convicted on the two charges in Belleville Provincial Court. Juby will also be on probation for ten months when he is released, and was given a ten-year weapons prohibition.

Belleville company Renovates 8-Wing Hangar

A Belleville company has won a 263-thousand dollar contract at C-F-B Trenton.

The Wing Engineering Officer, Major Phil Baker, says Buddy Haegele Enterprises will renovate Hangar number four, along Old Highway Two. Some of the functions now done in Hangars five and six will be moved to Hangar four, then five and six will be demolished to make way for the construction of a new C-17 Globemaster hangar.

Baker says over 350-million dollars in construction work has been approved at the base over the past several years, with 100-million completed, and another quarter billion dollars worth ongoing.

Manslaughter Plea in Trenton Homocide

It’s eight years in a federal penitentiary for a 38-year old Trenton man who stabbed and killed his sister’s boyfriend last summer. Marcus Wilson pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter in Superior Court in Belleville this morning. He was charged with second degree murder in the stabbing death of 37-year old James Reid at a home on Regina Crescent at CFB Trenton in the morning of July 26th. Crown Attorney Paul Layefsky told the court that Wilson and Reid got into an argument and physical confrontation over a pair of pit-bulls and Wilson stabbed Reid in the heart. Wilson was arrested three days later in Nova Scotia while trying to make his way to a friend’s house in Newfoundland. In a victim impact statement, Reid’s brother Randy said he can barely go on since Jimmy’s death adding he was his best friend, fellow employee and brother.

Colonel Williams Wife Doesn’t Show Up

Photographers were at Superior Court in Belleville hoping to catch a glimpse of the wife of the former base commander at CFB Trenton. but, the motion expected to be filed Mary Elizabeth Harriman in connection with a civil suit filed by Jane Doe of Tweed was adjourned until late next month. The wife of Colonel Russell Williams hasn’t been seen since his arrest in early February for the murders of Jessica Lloyd and Marie France Comeau and two home invasion sexual assaults in Tweed. Jane Doe alleges she was one of the home-invasion victims and has launched a law suit against Williams and Harriman. She’s seeking 250-thousand for damages stemming from both the attack and from a real estate transfer.