HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-07-14, Page 8Page 8---Lueknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 14, 1993
Missing person
Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce are
seeking the public's assistance in
the investigation of a missing per-
son case in the Hanover area,. •
The Hanover Police Services
report that Christine Marianne Har-
ron was last seen by her mother at
1:30 p.m. May 18, 1993 at her
residence at 454 - 12th Street,
Hanover, Ontario. She was reported
missing later the same day. subse-
quent Police investigation revealed
she was observed in and around
John Diefenbaker High School the
afternoon of May 18 and 19, 1993.
The police investigation has been
extensive and no further clues have
been uncovered as to her
whereabouts. There is no evidence
of foul play. It is believed at this
time Christine is a missing
runaway. she is described as 5 feet
3 inches tall, slim build, blue eyes,
shoulder length full wavy brown
hair, wears glasses, and was last
seen wearing light blue jean jacket,
dark blue jeans, and black running
shoes.
If you can help in this or any
other case, Crime Stoppers of Grey
Bruce are willing to pay a reward
up to $1000 for information leading
to an arrest. CALL CRIME STOP-
PERS TOL L FREE •AT 1-800-265-
3787. You need not identify your-
self. No one will know who you
are. You will never have to testify
in court, and you could be eligible
for a cash reward.
•
Christine Marianne Harron
Thieves target trailers at camp
Three ,trailers at a Kinlgss
Township camp site were reported
broken into on July 8 to the Kincar-
dine OPP.
From the first trailer, 18 pints of
beer and a can of soup worth about
$40 were stolen.
About $125 in food and liquor,
including a 40 ounce bottle of rum
and a 40 ounce bottle of rye, were
stolen from the second trailer.
Hamburgers, beer and other food
from a fridge worth about $85 were
stolen from the third trailer.
• The windows of the trailers'' had
been damaged to get inside.
Two 15 -year-old Kinloss
Township boys were arrested and
each were charged with three
counts of break, enter and theft and
with breach of probation.
On July 11, a 21 -year-old Huron
Township man was charged with
being intoxicated in a public place
after OPP responded to a call about
people drinking at •a Point Clark
boat dock. Three bottles of beer
were seized and warnings were
given out to leave the area..
On July 11, a $700 Toshiba •por--
table CD, cassette, radio was taken
from a tent at a Bruce Township
campsite. The theft occurred -on
July 10 while the owner of the
radio was away from the tem for a
little while.
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Eventually, if you are lucky, you
receive the items that you. ordered,
and discover that they were
extremely overpriced.
The prize you picked? In some
cases, nothing is received. In other
cases, for example, you might have
picked the stereo, but received a
pocket transistor radio.
Sound familiar? That's not
surprising. Thousands of Canadians
are taken in every year by
fraudulent telephone solicitations,
for an average loss of ap-
proximately $500 each.
Prject Phonebuster
Police estimate that approximately
40 Canadian companies earn a total
of about $20 million annually by
defrauding the public through
telephone scams. If you are one of
the thousands who have been vic-
timized by one of these companies,
don't be embarrassed. These
fraudulent schemes are designed to
resemble legitimate business tran-
sactions. That means they are dif-
ficult for victims to detect and,
unfortunately, even harder to
prosecute. The difficulty in
prosecutingthese companies, and
the individuals who run them, is
one of the main reasons Project
Phonebuster was launched.
Established .this past January to
combat telemarketing fraud in
Canada, this joint effort combines
the financial and human resources
of the Ontario Provincial Police,
which initiated the project, the
Royal Canadian ' Mounted Police.
and Consumer and Corporate Af-
fairs Canada. The goal of Project
Phonebuster is to prosecute key
individuals and companies involved
in telemarketing fraud under the
Criminal Code and the misleading
advertising and deceptive marketing
practices provisions of the Com-
petition Act.
• Phonebusters
In order for Project Phonebuster
to work, your help is needed. If you
have been a victim of a telephone
scam like the kind. described above,
please phone, fax or mail the details
of your complaint to: Detective
Staff Sergeant Barry Elliott, OPP -
North Bay, 320 Airport Road, Box
686, North Bay, Ontario, P1B 8W9.
Phone: (705)495-3899. Fax:
(705)494.4008.
Det. Staff Sgt. Elliott's office is
compiling a registry of complaints
and will use the information
received for prosecution when pos-
sible. If you are mailing or faxing a
omplairrt--please--set.it_out i _the
form of a statement indicating what
was promised to you and what, if
anything, was received. If possible,
please send in all original documen-
tation.
There are many legitimate
telemarketers operating in Canada.
Unfortunately, there are also a
number of unscrupulous companies
that just want to make money at.
your expense. Canadians should be
wary of companies who refuse to
give their name or telephone num-
ber when asked, who use pressure
tactics in an effort to make a quick
sale, who promise a valuable prize
in return for a .seemingly modest
purchase or who make suspicious or
unreasonable statements. In the end,
if an offer sounds too good to be
true, it' probably . is. .
If you do .receive one of these
types of calls,' the safest thing for'
you to do is hang up. Do not send
money or ,give the caller your credit
card number for any reason. Once a
credit card account has been
charged, even without the
cardholder's permission, it may be
impossible to reverse the transac-
tion. ,