A 36-year-old Elliot Lake man faces criminal charges after Ontario Provincial Police arrested him for allegedly breaking into the chalet at Mt. Dufour Ski Area, a local community-run non-profit ski hill. OPP responded to an activated alarm at the facility on Ski Hill Road around 1:30 a.m. on May 24. Mt. Dufour Ski Area operates a full-service chalet with a licensed lounge, rental equipment, and a canteen that serves meals to support the hill’s operations. “A smashed rear window was observed and alarm motion determined movement in the kitchen area of the chalet,” police said in a news release. Officers located the allegedly intoxicated man inside the canteen’s kitchen area, they said he was “helping himself to food.” The accused was charged with break-and-enter with intent to commit an indictable offence and mischief. He is scheduled to appear in court on July 10.
