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Sudbury police officer guilty of fraud

A police constable in Sudbury has been found guilty and another is off the hook after an insurance company was defrauded almost four years ago.  Christopher Lebreche was charged with fraud under $5,000 and uttering forged documents after Manulife Financial discovered it was getting fake benefits claims.  The phoney claims covered the January 2013 to March 2015 period.

Lebreche has been on desk duty ever since the charges were laid and he’s still looking at some kind of action under the Police Services Act.  There’s no mention of what Lebreche will be sentenced to.  Meanwhile his colleague, Constable Kathryn Howard had the same charges against her dropped although she still has to go through a Police Services Act disciplinary hearing.  And like Lebreche, Howard remains on desk duty.

Rocco Frangione
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.

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