A shooting probe that saw a Sarnia teen charged with attempted murder Friday has a link to a teen charged after a recent $47,000 fentanyl bust at a Napier Street home, records show.
HAS shooting probe that saw a Sarnia teen charged with attempted murder Friday has a link to a teen charged after a recent $47,000 fentanyl bust at a Napier Street home, records show.
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Craig Dooley, 18, was arrested last week by Canada Border Services Agency officers in BC on a Canada-wide warrant, Sarnia police said Friday. Their officers brought Dooley back to the city to face the attempted murder charge and five firearms-related counts stemming from an Aug. 28 shooting in the driveway of 222 Napier St.
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Roderick (Mikey) Bressette was shot, court records show. He’s the same person charged three weeks ago with possessing drugs for trafficking and carelessly storing ammunition after officers found 270 grams of fentanyl worth $47,250 in a Napier Street home, police said recently.
Police didn’t mention any connection to the shooting at that time, but did say the fentanyl probe began in August, which is when Bressette was shot.
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Four days after Bressette’s arrest, more charges were laid against him, his brother, girlfriend, and parents, after police with a warrant searched 222 Napier St. and found several hunting rifles, including a loaded .22-caliber rifle near the front door, ammunition and five more grams of fentanyl.
Bressette and his girlfriend, Hayleigh Hawryluk, pulled into a Napier Street driveway just after midnight when a masked gunman shot him, Sarnia police said in late August. They both fled and Bressette stumbled to the front doors of Sarnia police headquarters with multiple nine-millimeter gunshot wounds to the neck and chest.
It was amazing Bressette made it to the police station roughly 300 meters away, Det-Insp. Leo Murphy said at the time. “It’s fortunate that he was so close.”
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Police confirmed days later that the attack, which left Bressette with permanent damage, was targeted. After an extensive probe, police said they had grounds to charge Dooley – forensics played a major factor, they said – and obtained a Canada-wide warrant because he’d left the Sarnia area.
Dooley was arrested Monday by border officers while crossing into Canada on the highway from Sumas, Wash., to Abbotsford, BC Sarnia police returned him to the city Friday, where he appeared in court about 5 pm on charges of attempted murder, discharging a firearm with intent, possessing a firearm without authorization, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possessing a firearm knowing its possession was unauthorized, and possessing a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition.
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He was held pending an appearance Monday and banned from contacting Bressette or Hawryluk.
Bressette, initially charged with possessing drugs for trafficking and carelessly storing ammunition Feb. 12, was charged four days later with carelessly storing a firearm, carelessly storing ammo, ammunition, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and possessing drugs, police said.
They also charged Hawryluk, 18, and Bressette’s parents, Roland St. Jean, 71, and Dianne St. Jean, 70, with five weapons-related offenses. A sign at 222 Napier St. bears the names Rolly and Dianne St. Jean and Mikey B.
His brother, Dakota Bressette, 22, was charged with the same five offenses and two counts of breaching a release order, but couldn’t be found, so police obtained an arrest warrant. He’s since surrendered to police, records show.
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Mikey Bressette was released Feb. 16 on $1,000 bail to his parents and uncle under house arrest, except for school and work, at the Napier Street home. Dakota Bressette was released Feb. 22 to an Aamjiwnaang First Nation address on house arrest with GPS tracking. He’s allowed to talk to his family at Napier Street home, but can’t go there except once to collect his belongings.
The St. Jeans and Hawryluk were released pending court appearances this month.
None of the charges against the Bressettes, the St. Jeans, Hawrlyuk, or Dooley have been tested in court.
The charge laid against Dooley is the second attempted murder charge Sarnia police have laid this year along with one count of first-degree murder.
The Bressettes’ brother, Dalton, who died in September 2022, is a homicide victim, Sarnia police have said. An Aamjiwnaang man is going to trial for manslaughter.
With files from Tyler Kula
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