A six-month probe into a last summer shoot culminating Friday with a Sarnia teen being charged with attempted murder is connected to a recent $47,000 fentanyl bust at a Napier Street home and another teen who lives there, 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 went out west and brought Dooley back to the city Friday to face the attempted murder charge along with five firearms-related offenses linked to an Aug. 28 shooting in the driveway of 222 Napier St.
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The person who was shot was Roderick “Mikey” Bressette, court records show – the same person who was arrested three weeks ago and charged with possessing drugs for the purpose of trafficking and carelessly storing ammunition after officers found 270 grams of fentanyl worth $47,250 in a Napier Street home, police recently said.
Police didn’t mention at the time it was linked to the shooting, but they did say the criminal investigations division and vice unit launched the fentanyl probe in August, which is when Bressette was shot.
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Four days after Bressette’s arrest, additional charges were laid against him and four other people – his brother, girlfriend, and parents – after police said they raided 222 Napier St. with a firearms search warrant and found several hunting rifles, including a loaded .22 caliber rifle close to the front door, ammunition, and five more grams of fentanyl.
A man – now confirmed to be Bressette – pulled into a driveway on Napier Street just after midnight with his girlfriend when a masked person with a gun shot him, Sarnia police said in late August. They both fled and Bressette stumbled up to the front doors at Sarnia police headquarters in obvious distress suffering from multiple nine-millimeter gunshot wounds in the neck and chest, police said.
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Det-Insp. Leo Murphy said at the time it was amazing he was able to make it to the police station after being shot.
“And it’s fortunate that he was so close,” he said.
The house and headquarters are about 300 meters apart, according to an online map.
Police confirmed a couple of days later the attack that left Bressette with permanent damage was targeted. Following an extensive probe, police said they had grounds to charge Dooley – forensics played a major factor, they said – but a Canada-wide warrant had to be issued as he’d left the Sarnia area.
He was arrested Monday on that warrant by border officers while crossing into Canada on the highway connecting Sumas, Wash. and Abbotsford, BC Sarnia police went to BC to get Dooley and brought him back to the city Friday, where he appeared in court around 5 pm on charges of attempted murder, discharging a firearm with intent, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possessing a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized, and possessing a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition.
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He was kept in custody and the case was adjourned to Monday. In the meantime, he’s banned from contacting Bressette or his girlfriend, Hayleigh Hawryluk.
Bressette was initially arrested on two charges Feb. 12, but additional charges surfaced four days later including careless storage of a firearm, careless storage of ammunition, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and drug possession, police said.
They also charged Bressette’s girlfriend, 18-year-old Hawryluk, and his parents, Roland St. Jean, 71, and Dianne St. Jean, 70, with five weapons-related offenses. A sign at 222 Napier St. reads the names Rolly and Dianne St. Jean and Mikey B.
Additionally, his brother, Dakota Bressette, 22, was charged with the same five offenses along with two counts of breaching a release order, but police couldn’t find him initially so an arrest warrant was issued. He’s since surrendered to police, records show, but both brothers have been released on bail.
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Mikey Bressette was released Feb. 16 on $1,000 bail to his parents and uncle under house arrest back at the Napier Street home, but he can still go to school and work. Dakota Bressette was released Feb. 22 to a different address in Aamjiwnaang First Nation on house arrest with GPS tracking. He’s allowed to talk to his family members living at the Napier Street home, but is banned from going there aside from one visit to collect his belongings.
The St. Jeans and Hawryluk were released by police without the need for a bail hearing. All of the accused return to court later this month.
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.
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