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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, October 23, 2020   4:10pm
(Ottawa) — Frontline Patrol Officers responded to a possible vehicle theft in progress in the 900 block of Rossburn Crescent overnight. 
At approximately 2:50 am, a witness observed a person trying to break into a neighbour’s car, as well as a suspicious vehicle waiting nearby. 
Responding officers located the suspicious vehicle and arrested three suspects. 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, October 23, 2020            10:46am
(Ottawa) – Ottawa Police Service (OPS) Traffic and Patrol officers will be focused on speed enforcement and downtown intersections this weekend, as a reminder to commuters to adjust their behaviour when it comes to seeing and being seen on the road.  
“In summer, you have high visibility in early morning until mid-evening,”...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, October 23, 2020     8:15am (Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service Sexual Assault and Child Abuse (SACA) Unit charged an Ottawa man with one count of Sexual Assault in relation to an incident that occurred at a private home in early 2019 involving a male victim in his 20s. 
A complaint was received in March 2019 and an investigation commenced. 
Investigators found that the victim came into contact with the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, October 23, 2020   7:33am  
(Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service is investigating a hate-motivated graffiti that occurred on Wednesday, October 14 th at the National War Memorial on Wellington Street. 
At approximately 9:46pm, a man riding a bike approached the Memorial, used a sharp object to engrave a hate graffiti on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He left the area on the bike.
The suspect is described...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 22, 2020       1:20pm (Ottawa) — The Ottawa Police East Criminal Investigative Unit would like to thank the public for its assistance in identifying the persons responsible for an aggravated assault in the 2800 block of Riverside Drive on October 4 th . 
Samuel WAWATIE-PAPATIEW, 21 years old, of Gatineau, was charged with assault with a weapon, aggravated assault and possession of a weapon. 
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