Linda Richardson

1 week ago | sootoday.com | Linda Richardson

Thomas Chevrier blatantly ignored court orders curbing his driving privileges and his behaviour cost him big time. His actions caught the eye of cops on three occasions during a six-month period and landed him in a Sault Ste. Marie courtroom Tuesday. The 28-year-old pleaded guilty to half a dozen offences that occurred in August and September of 2024 and January of this year.

1 week ago | sootoday.com | Linda Richardson

A White River man is doing time in the community for sexually assaulting a woman in the fall of 2022. Leo Vogt, 55, pleaded guilty to the charge last month when he appeared in a Sault Ste. Marie courtroom. The assault occurred on Nov. 2, 2022 after they were drinking alcohol at his residence, Superior Court Justice Edward Gareau heard. She decided to stay there that night, but doesn't remember going to bed, prosecutor Blair Hagan said. The woman woke up and found Vogt sexually assaulting her.

1 week ago | sootoday.com | Linda Richardson

When city police officers checked a vehicle in the parking lot of an east-end convenience store in March 2023, they found Daniel Lepage in the driver's seat. He was slumped over the steering wheel of the 2008 black Hyundai, which was running, outside a Wellington Street East Circle K store. There was mucus coming from his nose, and drug paraphernalia in the driver's door, a judge heard Wednesday.

2 weeks ago | sootoday.com | Linda Richardson

A distinct neck tattoo and a business man who snapped photos of his two assailants connected Joshua Roess to an October knife attack. There "sure are not many people walking around" the Sault with a "girls lie" tattoo around their neck, prosecutor Robert Skeggs told a judge Wednesday. Roess, 31, pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon stemming from an Oct. 22, 2024 incident that occurred on Wellington Street East.

2 weeks ago | sootoday.com | Linda Richardson

In the early morning hours of June 7, 2024, a woman contacted city police because she wanted Watson Desmoulin removed from her residence. When officers arrived, he "was heavily intoxicated" and "was stumbling," a judge heard last week. She told them they had argued and he "had choked her," prosecutor Heidi Mitchell said. The woman "had finger marks on her throat and a raspy voice," she told Ontario Court Justice Robert Villeneuve.