NEWS RELEASE
TIMMINS POLICE SERVICE
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The Timmins Police Service arrested a local resident on the strength of an arrest warrant while responding to a disturbance at an apartment building located in the west end of the city yesterday afternoon.
The Timmins Police were called to the scene of a disturbance in progress involving two women who reside in the apartment building and who were involved in a heated altercation with each other.
Once order had been restored, a Timmins Police officer recognized one of the women involved as being a “wanted person” named in a current arrest warrant held by the Timmins Police Service.
Once the validity of the warrant was confirmed, the subject was arrested by the Timmins Police Service.
As a result, Chantal Doucet, 40, of Timmins was arrested on the strength of the warrant.
She remains in police custody awaiting a bail hearing slated for today at Provincial Court in Timmins to answer to charges stemming from a previous incident resulting in the arrest warrant being issued for her arrest.
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