Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged a local man after shoplift in Gravenhurst.
On December 1, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. Bracebridge OPP officers were dispatched to a theft in progress after a man was caught stealing a quantity of heated coats from Home Hardware on Muskoka Road North in Gravenhurst.
Officers arrived and located the man after he had dropped the items and lost a shoe attempting to flee through a snowbank.
Police have charged 52-year-old Raymond Leight of Port Sydney with Theft Under $5000.
He will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on January 16, 2024 to answer to his charge.