Police seeking fugitive with ties to London, other local communities

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Police are asking for help finding a fugitive who has ties to London and other Southwestern Ontario communities.

The Ontario Provincial Police-led repeat parole enforcement squad (ROPE) was searching Friday morning for Sean Robertson, 37, who is serving a five-year sentence for a range of offences including armed robbery, flight from police, possession of a weapon and dangerous driving.

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He’s described as a white man standing six-feet tall and weighing 176 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. He has tribal tattoos on his left arm and a clover on the right side of his neck. 

Robertson is known to frequent London, Woodstock, Tillsonburg, Essex County, Simcoe, Hamilton, Brantford and Niagara Falls.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call the ROPE squad at 416-808-5900 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

The ROPE squad is a multi-agency task force responsible for locating parolees unlawfully at large and prisoners who escape custody.

Man charged with sexual assault in trail incidents

A 34-year-old Brantford man has been charged with sexual assault and criminal harassment.

The charges stem from two separate incidents alleged to have occurred on the walking trails near Shellard Lane and Colborne Street West.

The first incident took place June 9 at approximately 9 a.m. when Brantford police say a man approached a woman on the trail. On June 11, police say a man approached another female at 9:15 a.m.

Police did not release details of the incidents or information related to the victims. The accused was arrested June 12 and was held for a bail hearing.

Police are reminding residents that sexual assault is any unwanted act of a sexual nature imposed by one person upon another. Grabbing, touching or kissing can be defined as sexual assault.

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