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PAGE A4 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, DECEMBER 17, 2003 www.durhamregion.com <•: Man charged with videotaping woman through window Woman also filmed in Bowmanville apartment OSHAWA - A 26-year-old Os- liawa man is charged after a Pickering Pickering woman was covertly videotaped through an apartment window while she was undressing. An investigation revealed the victim victim was filmed in a basement apartment apartment in Bowmanville sometime between between late 1999 and early 2001. police police said. The 26-year-old woman learned about the video Nov. 27 from a male friend, who was recently shown the tape while visiting an Oshawa apartment. apartment. The victim and her friend - who tipped off authorities - are acquainted acquainted with the suspect, Durham Regional Regional Police said. A search warrant was executed at a Wilson Road residence in Oshawa and the video was recovered, said Sergeant Paul Malik, police spokesman. "The victim confirmed the tape was of her. She was shocked," lie said. "The allegation is that while she was undressing in her apartment, the suspect videotaped her from outside and without her knowledge," he said. He added the woman, who has known the suspect for several years, was able to pinpoint the location and the approximate time the video was made. A small amount of magic mushrooms mushrooms was also seized during the search. Rodney Tutak of Wilson Road North is charged with criminal harassment, harassment, mischief and possession of a controlled substance. He was released with a court date of Jan. 28. The investigation is continuing and anyone with information about the case is asked to call the 18 Division Division Criminal Investigation Bureau at 905-579-1520 (1-888-579-1520), ext. 1832, or Crime Stoppers at 1- 800-222-8477. Twelve more nailed in RIDE checks DURHAM - A dozen more motorists motorists have made the Durham Regional Regional Police drunk-driving list after the third weekend of the holiday RIDE program. Eleven men and one woman were arrested and charged with alcohol- related driving offences as a result of 6,600 roadside spotchccks in Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Pickering. Cour- tice and Bowmanville over the weekend. One person was charged with refusing refusing to provide a breath sample and 17 others had their licences suspended suspended for 12 hours after blowing a 'Warn.' The names of alleged drunk-drivers drunk-drivers charged during this year's RIDE program are being posted weekly on the Durham Regional Police Web site at www.drps.ca. Quest for sludge test results drags on *1 * I L lu MOE uncertain where toxins and chemicals came from BY CARLY FOSTER Staff Writer DURHAM - Delays and possibly contaminated testing methods are still plaguing studies on the effects of paper sludge in the Region. While toxins and chemicals were found in test wells around the Oshawa Oshawa Skeel and Gun Club a few months ago. the Ministry of the Environment Environment is still unsure where they're coming from, a health and social services services meeting heard last week. The MOE has been testing for three years to see if berms at the club made from paper sludge and sand - called Soundsorb - are contaminating water in the area. The latest results from test wells in and around the gun club that showed organic compounds - known as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons hydrocarbons - may have been skewed, said Anne Neary. manager of technical supply for the central region of the MOE. Contaminated well-drilling equipment equipment could throw off the results, as could a local compost pile, she said. The lab also had a problem with too much soil in the test water, she added. "But we're not saying...we're satisfied satisfied it's not the berm," Ms. Neary said. "I'm not here to say we're pretending pretending there's no problem." Such elements as chloride, sodium, sodium, sulphate, and potassium are in the constructed berms, and arc very mobile, but they were not found in the water, either. "So if there was a plume (of those) coming from the berms, we should be able to see it," Ms. Neary said, adding that tests for those contaminants contaminants showed lower levels than a bottle bottle of water would. Despite a detailed presentation by Ms. Neary, few of the questions raised by the committee during an early October meeting were answered. answered. Those included the forming of an independent scientific panel, a monthly newsletter and results from other gun clubs. "We don't feel a whole lot further ahead than we did three years ago, and getting information from your department has been very painful and very slow," said frustrated Councillor Pat Perkins, who chairs the committee. committee. 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"Today, we didn't really learn much, we still don't know the source," site said after the presentation, presentation, adding a moratorium on Sound- sorb is still needed. More test results arc expected this week, while other answers will come in the new year, said Peter Balaban, who manages the MOE office. The health and social services committee also asked for a detailed time line of events and testing over the past three years. And the Region may still file a Freedom of Information request if the MOE continues to drag on, Coun. Perkins said. "The bottom line is, we just want to find out what's in the water," she said. 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