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Sunset Strip employee assaulted following theft

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A store employee suffered minor injuries after being assaulted by a suspect in a theft from a Sunset Strip business on Tuesday.

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Just after noon, Grey Bruce OPP responded to an assault that had occurred at the commercial business on the Sunset Strip in Georgian Bluffs.

A suspect had stolen items from the store and there was an altercation in the parking lot of the business after the employee confronted the suspect as he tried to leave the scene, police said in a news release.

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OPP officers patrolled the area and located the suspect nearby and made an arrest without incident. The employee sustained minor injuries, the release said.

A 42-year-old Owen Sound man was charged with assault and theft under $5,000.

He is scheduled to attend the Ontario Court of Justice in Owen Sound on March 25.

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