NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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On Dec. 2, 2017 at approximately 11:25 a.m., Wellington County OPP responded to a report of a suspicious person regarding a male walking in the roadway in downtown Elora. Police located the male and arrested him for being intoxicated in a public place. He was transported to a local detachment for processing.
A search incident to arrest located some property on the male that still had security tags on it. Investigation revealed that this property had been stolen from two local stores.
Fifty-eight-year-old James Snow of Harriston has been charged with being intoxicated in a public place, and two counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.
He is scheduled to appear in Guelph Criminal Court on Dec. 29, 2017 to answer to the charges.
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