Owen Sound Police say they arrested five people in unrelated incidents in the past couple of days.
Reasons included outstanding warrants, break and enter, theft, theft of mail and impaired driving. City Police arrested a Wiarton area man, a Meaford man, two Owen Sound residents and a Cargill man.
Police say at about 2 p.m. uniformed officers attended a lower west side residence and determined a man who was wanted on a Bench Warrant was present. As a result, the 34-year-old man originally from the Wiarton area was taken into custody, held for a court appearance on February 23rd and was released later that day.
Then just before 2:30 p.m. members of the Criminal Investigation Branch observed an Owen Sound male in the 200 block of 9th Street East. The 32-year-old man had an outstanding warrant for his arrest and was taken into custody a short distance away. He was further charged in unrelated matters which included Break, Enter & Commit, Theft and Attempt Break & Enter. Police say he made a court appearance on February 23rd and was subsequently remanded into custody.
Police say on Tuesday, February 23rd just before 7:30 a.m. officers responded to a downtown residential location with respect to an unwanted person. Police arrested a 32-year-old Meaford man on two outstanding warrants.
Police say they were in relation to the offences of Theft of Mail, Possession of Property Obtained by Crime and the allegation of a breach of his Conditional Sentence Order.
He made his first court appearance later that morning and was remanded into custody.
Just before 8:30 Tuesday morning, a 36-year-old Owen Sound woman was arrested on the strength of a Committal Warrant and made her first appearance in court later that morning. The woman entered into a Release Order before the Justice of the Peace and was released later that day.
Then at 4:30 in the afternoon, a 53-year-old Cargill man was taken into custody on the strength of two warrants, which involved the offences of Operation While Impaired, Fail or Refuse to Comply with Breath Demand and Drive Motor Vehicle with Cannabis in Open Baggage. The man has a court appearance on today.