A North Bay man is in custody after a home invasion near Kirkland Lake.
On June 6, Kirkland Lake OPP officers, the North East Region OPP Crime Unit and the North East Region OPP Forensic Identification Services, responded to a home invasion on Georgina Street in Matachewan, southwest of Kirkland Lake, where the occupant was assaulted by two people.
The victim sustained serious non-life threatening injuries as a result of the attack and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
As a result of the investigation, police have charged two people.
Louis Roy, 33, of North Bay, and Edgar Mohr, 39, of Cambridge, were charged with:
- Break, enter a place, commit an indictable offence,
- Uttering threats - cause death or bodily harm,
- Intimidation,
- Mischief under $5,000, and
- Cruelty to animals - unnecessary pain, suffering or injury.
Both were remanded into custody pending a bail hearing.
