Previously accused of Gretzky-stick fraud, inspector now suing police
In a statement of claim filed Thursday in Ottawa, Insp. June Dobson, the former Grenville County detachment commander, argues the Brantford Police Service, the OPP and the RCMP, as well as specific officers, “did not meet the required standard of care of reasonable police officers taking into account all of the circumstances.
Postmedia has reached out to the defendants, who now have 30 days to file statements of defence. None of the allegations in the statement of claim have been proven in court.The charges against Dobson, who was 58 at the time of her arrest, were withdrawn in August 2021, and she remains with the OPP. In December 2020, Tollar said Dobson was alleged to have “misrepresented the authenticity and the origin of the item,” thereby increasing its value to a purchaser.
Upon the charges being dropped, Dobson’s lawyer at the time said the inspector had been “falsely accused of misrepresenting a backyard hockey stick used by Wayne Gretzky when he was a young boy.” The investigators relied on “unreliable and easily controverted” statements by members of the Gretzky family, the claim continues, and failed “to take into account the overwhelming exculpatory evidence.”
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