OPP officer charged after jail cell incident

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An OPP officer in northwestern Ontario is facing a charge of assault causing bodily harm.

The charge follows an investigation by the province's Special Investigations Unit. The SIU says it was was called in after a 42-year-old man, Gary Lawrence Megan was injured last February. The SIU says Megan had been arrested and taken to the Greenstone detachment.

He was hurt, it says, during what the SIU calls an interaction in a cell in the OPP lockup. Megan was taken to hospital for treatment. Two weeks later, a CT scan determined he had sustained a serious injury to the eye area..

Constable Brian Bellefeuille has now been charged with assault causing bodily harm and with public mischief and will appear in court in Geraldton in August.

In the meantime, Bellefeuille has been suspended from duty.

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Greenstone OPP officer charged with assault

A Greenstone provincial police officer has been charged with assault causing bodily harm after a 42-year-old man suffered a serious eye-related injury earlier this year.

Ontario’s Special Investigation Unit laid the charged against the officer, in his early 30s, following “an interaction” between the accused officer and the alleged victim in a cell at the Greenstone OPP detachment in Geraldton on Feb. 11.

The 42-year-old victim was injured in the incident and taken to hospital. Two weeks later, said the SIU, “a CT scan determined he had sustained a serious injury to the eye area.”
In a news release about the incident, the SIU said the injured man had been arrested before the alleged incident, but did not say why.

In addition to the assault charge, the SIU also charged the accused officer with one count of public mischief.

The civilian-based SIU investigates when someone dies, has been seriously injured, or there are allegations of sexual assault while police are involved.

OPP Const. Brian Bellefeuille is to appear in Geraldton court Aug. 16.

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