A local man has been arrested on an outstanding warrant following a break-and-enter in Chatham.
The Chatham-Kent Police Service said officers responded to a break-in at a business on Sandy Street at around 1 a.m. on November 14, after a man climbed over the business’s barbed-wire fence and entered a secured compound.
While inside, the man triggered on-site alarms and surveillance cameras before fleeing the scene, bending and damaging the fence in the process.
Authorities reviewed surveillance footage and identified a suspect, who was also on house arrest as part of the terms of a previous release order. As a result, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
The accused, a 46-year-old Chatham man, was located and arrested at around 4 p.m. on Friday. He is now charged with break-and-enter to commit an indictable offence, and failing to comply with a release order. He was held in custody for a bail hearing.