NEWS RELEASE
TIMMINS POLICE SERVICE
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The Timmins Police Service arrested two local residents on the strength of respective arrest warrants which were executed at the scene of two separate incidents that occurred over the weekend.
The Timmins Police were notified that the Temiskaming Shores OPP had taken a person into their custody based on the strength of a current arrest warrant held by the Timmins Police.
Once the validity of the warrant was confirmed, the subject was arrested by an OPP officer in New Liskeard on April 9.
Arrangements were coordinated and, as a result, Paul Vachon, 35, of Timmins was transported back to Timmins by police.
He remains in police custody awaiting a bail hearing slated for today at the Ontario Court of Justice in Timmins to answer to charges against him.
In a separate incident that occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, April 10, a Timmins Police officer recognized a pedestrian on Waterloo Road as being a wanted person named in a current arrest warrant.
Once the validity of the warrant was confirmed, the subject was arrested by the Timmins Police Service.
As a result, Nicholas Echum, 37, of Timmins was arrested on the strength of the warrant. Echum remains in police custody awaiting a bail hearing slated for today at the Ontario Court of Justice in Timmins to answer to the charge laid against him.
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