NEWS RELEASE
TIMMINS POLICE SERVICE
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The Timmins Police Service has charged a Cochrane man with theft related offences stemming from an incident that occurred on Monday, Aug. 30 at a west-end hardware store in Timmins.
A Timmins Police officer responded to a call for service yesterday afternoon regarding a suspicious person who had attended at the retail store, gathered up a number of power tools, and fled the store on foot without making any attempt to pay for the items in his possession.
The responding officer confronted the male suspect a short distance from the original scene.
The suspect provided a false name to the police officer as he was arrested and taken into custody along with the freshly stolen goods.
Further investigation determined the suspect’s actual name and that he was bound by a number of court imposed conditions that he was found to be in breach of.
As a result of the incident, David Iserhoff, 30 of Cochrane, has been charged with:
• theft under $5,000 contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
• personation with intent to mislead contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
• possession of property obtained by crime contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
• fail to comply with probation order contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
• two counts of fail to comply with release order contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada
Iserhoff remains in police custody awaiting a bail hearing slated for today at Provincial Court in Timmins to answer to the charges laid against him.
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