FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:45am
(Ottawa) – Frontline officers responded to the area of 1-100 block of Ellery Crescent for a male who had been stabbed, on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 6:05pm. Officers located a 20 year old male with critical but non-life threatening injuries. The suspect was no longer in the area.
Officers then responded to a possible break and enter in the 1-100 block of Stinson Crescent. The suspect entered the home, brandished a knife and fled with homeowners’ personal belongings.
Frontline officers, with the assistance of canine, located the suspect nearby a short time later. He was arrested without incident.
Soren James VEALE, 19 years old of Ottawa, has been charged by West Criminal Investigations with:
- Aggravated Assault
- Assault with a Weapon
- Possession of Weapons Dangerous
- Breaking and Entering with Intent to Commit
- Attempted Breaking and Entering
- Unlawfully in Dwelling House
- Loiter at Night X2
VEALE is scheduled to appear in Show cause court this morning.
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