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CORNWALL Brandon Smeltzer, 27, hung his head low, with his eyes down, as he appeared before the Cornwall court via Zoom on Tuesday morning to hear testimony from a close friend of Emilie Maheu, the woman he killed.
Smeltzer admitted killing Maheu in a court appearance in 2018, but has denied plotting to take Maheu’s life in advance and is therefore contesting the charge of murder in the first degree. Crown prosecutors Elaine Evans and Isabel Blanchard are attempting to prove Smeltzer purposefully tried to hide his travels to Maheu’s Alexandria residence and manipulated her into getting into his vehicle in order to carry out the planned attack before driving her body to another location, where a farmer later found her remains.
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The Ontario Provincial Police has laid criminal charges against an inspector with 33 years on the force as part of its internal probe into towing-related corruption.
Inspector Steve Grosjean, 62, commander for the highway safety division’s Mississauga detachment, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with breach of trust.
OPP spokesperson Bill Dickson declined to offer any details Thursday about the specific allegations against Insp. Grosjean.