MEWS Arrested After Threatening Dog

Source: OPP
Date: Tue Nov 26 05:50:46 MST 2024

(ELLIOT LAKE, ON) – One person was arrested after breaking into a neighbour’s apartment and threatened the resident and their dog.

On November 23, 2024, at approximately 10:30 p.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to an apartment on Pine Road in relation to a violent neighbour dispute. The complainant reported that their female neighbour was highly intoxicated and acting extremely irrational. The female broke open the complainant’s door, entered the apartment, assaulted the complainant, and choked their dog. The dog was eventually let go and female threatened to kill it and the complainant. The female then proceeded to break three windows at the complainant’s apartment and assault another person inside. Police attended and subsequently arrested the female who was also very uncooperative with police.

Paulina Monica MEWS, 46-years-old, of Elliot Lake was charged with:



Assault – two counts
Assault causing bodily harm
Break, enter dwelling house – commit indictable offence
Mischief over $5000
Uttering threats – cause death or bodily harm
Uttering threats – damage or injure animal
Cruelty to animals – unnecessary pain, suffering or injury
The accused was scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice Bail Court in Blind River on November 24, 2024.