custody_injury · 2026-Q1
Special Investigations Unit (Ontario) · SIU case 26-OCI-007
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The evidence collected by the SIU, including interviews with the affected person and other witnesses (police and non-police), gives rise to the following scenario. As was their legal right, the subject officer chose not to interview with the SIU. They did authorize the release of their notes. Shortly before noon, in early 2026, police officers responded to a call in Sudbury. A 911 call had been received suggesting a potentially violent disturbance inside a vehicle. The caller did not communicate directly with the call-taker but the police were able to use her cell phone to approximate a location from where she was calling. An officer found the vehicle in the area. They spoke to two individuals and determined that there were grounds to believe that one of them had been assaulted by the affected person. Fearing their imminent arrest, the affected person, inside the rear of the vehicle, exited and fled the scene. They ran a short distance and entered into the rear, enclosed deck of a house in the area, where they sought to conceal themselves in a crawl space under a staircase. A police dog handler and their dog arrived at the site of the vehicle from which the affected person had fled. Joined by other officers, the police dog handler and their dog initiated a track of the affected person. They were not hard to find. The officers followed a set of footprints in the snow to the house in the area, spoke to one of the homeowners briefly, and entered the rear deck. The affected person was quickly located inside a crawl space. The police dog handler released their police dog. The dog approached the affected person and bit their right hand. With the dog still latched onto their hand, the affected person was removed from the crawl space and positioned on the floor in a prone position. They were handcuffed behind the back and the dog separated from their right hand. The affected person was transported to hospital after their arrest and diagnosed with a fracture of the small finger on the right hand.
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