Fingerprints lead police to arrest break-in suspect

Mar 04, 2009- 2:00 PM

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Posted by Sudbury Northern Life

A 36-year-old Sudbury man has been charged with break, enter and theft and breach of probation in connection to a break-in at a home in the Cambrian Heights area sometime between Aug. 29 and Sept. 1.

A large amount of jewelry, cash and personal items valued at approximately $900 were taken from the home. The suspect got into the home by forcing a patio door.

The suspect was linked to the break-in through fingerprint evidence. He is due to appear in bail court March 4.

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This story is based on the most recent information provided by police. No further details have been provided at this time. If you have pertinent information, phone Sudbury Rainbow Crime Stoppers at 675-TIPS or 1-800-222-TIPS.

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gloria_1 3/11/2009 1:19:03 AM - Report Abuse

wondrinwhy The police said I didn''t have enough proof to have him charged. I said take finger prints,They wouldn''t, I even had my things covered with the creeps cologne that you could smell so strong. Police wouldn''t even look at them and other things he left that I believe was his so called, calling card and I would like to know if other women had things like this left at there apartments. AS I know I am not the only one. I am not a man I do not have men''s cologne and there were no men with me in my apartment. This went on for years and all the police could say was no proof . Yet the police new he was harassing me. Due to other thing that were going on were I was living at the time. POLICE said to avoid him. I tried he was always in my face following me. If I went to do Laundry he would pace back and forth past the laundry room door.Same when I would take out garbage or get my mail or any time I went out. My daughter and her friend said he was like a old dog in heat,he wouldn''t leave them alone either. HE is the kind of creep that can''t stand rejection and will go to great lengths to make you pay for rejecting him. IN hind sight the first time I seen him I knew yet I dismissed his comments and I moved in. I do know he now''s some police as one of them said my harasser was using me for his own jollies and my best bet was to move. I told the police I wanted him charged so many times and all they did was told him to leave me alone as they said it was a he said she said, yet I had so many witnesses and so many incidences but because of his position he got off every-time. I find this to be such an injustice to women as he will take his behavior to far and some innocent women will be harmed more than I was and may even lose her life as it is this kind of behavior that leads to killing women. He has the jeckle and HIDE personality.
Anonymous User 3/9/2009 5:43:06 PM - Report Abuse

Youâ€™re pretty funny ''Outskirts Oscar''. I donâ€™t see how I would be robbed left and right. Itâ€™s not like I have a cop holding my hand everywhere I go. Iâ€™m sure if I was going to get robbed, it would happen whether there are community police or not. As for becoming a cop, I was never one bullied in school and I have no reason to harass people therefore becoming a cop in this town is out of the question. Law enforcement is quite an interesting field, when youâ€™re actually enforcing the law. Our police just became a cop to get a badge so they can legally get justice on ones that have caused them misery in the past. We all know enforcing the law is the least of their priorities.
Anonymous User 3/9/2009 5:15:55 PM - Report Abuse

Outskirts Oscar, without cops people wouldn''t have a reason to rob each other. There wouldn''t be insanely prohibitive laws that articially inflate prices such that lower and middle class people lose all their money if they try to live on the up and up. "The police become necessary in human society only when there exists a split between those that have and those that have not."
Outskirts Oscar 3/7/2009 12:55:05 PM - Report Abuse

Reality: Without cops, you''d be probably robbed left and right. So stop your bitchin'' and why don''t you become a cop yourself if you think you can do better?
tapped out in the Nickel 3/6/2009 11:09:12 AM - Report Abuse

I''ll stick with my first comment about your posts Reality.You whine about the police not doing their job and in the same breath whine when they do catch criminals.It''s not the police that let these people back out on the streets,it''s the court system.
wondrinwhy 3/6/2009 10:50:45 AM - Report Abuse

Gloria, if they knew who he was, there is no need to take fingerprints. Did you get a restraining order? This enables the police to act far more than just a "he said/she said" case. Slap the creep with an order and he''ll be arrested.
wondrinwhy 3/5/2009 5:21:01 PM - Report Abuse

That computer that runs prints and finds the print in minutes does not exist. A print can go thru that computer dozens of times, its all based on how clear the minutiae points are, the prints pulled at scenes rarely look crisp and clear. Also the tech has to determine which way is up for the print to run successfully, then and only then the computer gives results that include all possible close matches which are then checked by hand. (i graduated 2001-foresnic science major before you accuse me of not watching CSI often enough). As for officers not wanting to investigate a case because you are "only" a single mother, I hope you took yourself to the station and made a complaint. Thats how things are done when the police treat you badly.
gloria_1 3/5/2009 4:04:53 PM - Report Abuse

Sudbury police rarely take finger prints. I suppose if it were there family or some-one they know, they would take finger prints, if some-one was invading there home living space unlawfully weather you live in you own home or an apartment and ITS your private living space. Weather it your landlord or a stranger off the street, in the eyes of the LAWS IT should make no difference period WHO the perpetrator is. NO-one has the right to enter your living space on a regular basis. Did the invasion stop? NO. DID he get charged?" NO. IS HE laughing at me and the system? YOU bet he is. AS for the rest of us poor blokes, as I have said regularly IT who you know, is what you get off with or the service you get.
gloria_1 3/5/2009 3:32:57 PM - Report Abuse

Hardworkingmother I know exactly what you are saying. I had a person entering my apartment almost every-time I went out. .Thing would be moved and rifled through and when you live alone you know when things have been moved. Things missing. He even left things HE brought with him on the head of my bed and dresser. Things got much worse. THIS GREAT POLICE force did no finger printing. ALL they did was warn him to leave me alone and tell me I should move. THIS creep is still up to his old tricks. I never ever had any-thing to do with this man and I had put him in his place the first time he got fresh with me. THIS is just what he dose to get his jollies.
Anonymous User 3/5/2009 3:16:26 PM - Report Abuse

Oh here we go again huh ''tapped out''. I believe ignorance is the wrong word you used. Maybe pragmatical is a better suited word. Being realistic and level headed is a far cry from ignorance. Almost the opposite as a matter of fact. Judging from your comments, you may need a refresh on the definition of ignorance. I believe its something along the lines of uneducated and unaware. Hey, what do you know, Its YOU! The reality of this is that the police rarely catch criminals. When they do, they have wasted so much money, its almost not even worth it. Take this one for example. All this money spent for someone to go to court, and there again, more tax money down the drain and for what? Probably probation and a hard candy on the way out.
Anonymous User 3/5/2009 11:40:20 AM - Report Abuse

Man About Town, you seem to enjoy refering to me as "Aimless Aaron" or "Error Aaron", but you provide no facts, simply rhetoric. Ever heard of the scientific method? It''s what people who are actually smart use to form conclusions. It means excluding all other possibilities to arrive at a single possible explanation... anything else is pseudoscience. How many finger prints do you think they found on the patio door? Do you believe that the police manually compare the finger print they found to hundreds of thousands of others manually? Or do you suspect that a computer does it for them in minutes? Are there not public records that reveal investments made by the government into such a system? Now tell me, Man About Town... what do you do for a living, and where do you do it? I''ll go apply for your job, and we''ll see whos better at playing your game.
Natalie_1 3/4/2009 8:55:41 PM - Report Abuse

Wow!! Police work at it''s finnest!! When I got robbed there was a FULL hand print purposely left by the culprits on one of my bathroom mirrors and do you honestly think the police wanted to examine that print since I was a single working mom?!?! Whatever!! Police do as they wish and we all know that!!
Anonymous User 3/4/2009 7:50:23 PM - Report Abuse

Aaron: your cell must have a good view to see both doors.
woriedfather 3/4/2009 6:35:44 PM - Report Abuse

This guy will spend less time in jail than what it took the police to catch him. The worst part of it is he will be treated like an ordinary person when he comes out because the law says HE DID HIS TIME now leavehim be.
Anonymous User 3/4/2009 4:52:17 PM - Report Abuse

Error Aaron, Police work isn''t like your weekly dose of CSI. There is no magic machine for fingerprints like in Grissom''s office. No hot redhead to skulk out clues. It takes time to sort through hundreds of thousands of fingerprints on file. And there are plenty of reports that are sitting in line besides this one.That''s why the delay in the arrest. If it were your shack broken into, you''d want the crime solved. A B+E goes beyond property. It victimizes the occupant. Knowing that a stranger has rifled through your home. Violated the security of your life. If this guy busted into one place, how many others has he done without being caught? How many more did he have planned before this got him? Here''s a hint about fingerprints: If the cops find ones inside a forced entry. And they don''t belong to the home owners, how does the bad guy explain him being unlawfully in a house? - Duh? Newsflash - Catching bad guys is what the police do. Don''t even get started on the cost of an Impaired or Domestic Violence cost. If you want to start putting a price on police work, what next? Check the gross income of a person before dispatching an ambulance? What is the property value of that house on fire? Is it worth putting out?
Concerned Citizen_1 3/4/2009 4:10:43 PM - Report Abuse

To "Reality" and " Angry Aaron"...ahhahahhahaha...boy you guys have it all figured out don''t you. There is no way anyone can please you guys I bet. You should apply for the position of Judge as you two have no clue either! The local Police use the resources they have to solve a crime, one of many, and you have nothing but negative comments. Are you neighbours of Man About Town?
tapped out in the Nickel 3/4/2009 3:40:46 PM - Report Abuse

Reality,your ignorance shows through in every post you put on this site.
Anonymous User 3/4/2009 1:08:07 PM - Report Abuse

Here''s the part I find sad.... $900 of stuff was taken more than a quarter of a year ago. How much of your tax money do you think went in to finding fingerprints which may or may not have been left by the man who broke in? What if instead of paying the cops, we spent that tax money growing dope, gave it to the guy who broke in, and told him he has no more excuses for cime, and if he tries it again we''ll ship him off to Australia? It''s not a serious suggestion, but it illustrates a serious problem with our "law enforcement" (you know.. those people who hang out infront of the no smoking signs at the court house an jail smoking like the law doesn''t apply to them).
wondrinwhy 3/4/2009 12:36:12 PM - Report Abuse

I''m sure the victim of this crime was sincerely pleased to have closure, maybe feeling a little safer in their home since he can''t come back.
Anonymous User 3/4/2009 9:54:23 AM - Report Abuse

Wow. I wonder if they feel good about themselves knowing they have finally solved a real crime without any assistance from the public. Though it took quite some time, they still managed to put something together. Now they can all celebrate but getting an award winning traffic blitz together and go on a traffic ticket rampage!