mallorytown man charged after home invasion, fiery wreck in inverary
frontenac opp lay almost a dozen charges after a home invasion and collision north of kingston tuesday night
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the damage to a greenfield road yard shows the violence of tuesday night's collision that followed a home invasion in inverary. (elliot ferguson/the whig-standard/postmedia network)
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inverary — a violent home invasion in inverary north of kingston ended with a fiery car crash and a community lockdown as police hunted for the suspect tuesday night.
frontenac opp responded around 7:30 p.m. to a report of a robbery at a residence in the village.
police said a suspect entered a residence, threatened and robbed the homeowner before stealing their vehicle and fleeing the scene.
police said the vehicle was then involved in a single-vehicle collision on greenfield road.
laurie mcshane and her husband had just settled down to watch the toronto-ottawa national hockey league playoff game when they heard a loud bang and felt their greenfield road house shudder.
“we heard something hit our house and we’re like, ‘what the hell?’ so we look at the window and there was a fire on our lawn,” she said.
“we come out and there was a young guy who had somehow, miraculously, gotten out of the vehicle. we don’t know how. we yelled, ‘are you ok? he says, ‘yeah.’ but he was really kind of dazed,” she said. “then we asked if there’s anybody else in the vehicle, and he said yes. so my husband ran to get the fire extinguisher. i ran to get my phone to call 911 and then when we came out he was gone.”
mcshane said the vehicle appeared to be a blue ford f-150 pickup truck, parts of which were still strewn across the lawn wednesday morning.
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the south frontenac fire department responded to extinguish the fire.
“it was a massive fire, but we were just in panic mode thinking there’s some teenagers or something in there,” mcshane said.
there was no one else in the vehicle and police issued a shelter in place order for the area while the opp emergency response team and canine unit tracked down the suspect.
he was located on greenfield road and arrested about an hour after the crash. he suffered serious but non life-threatening injuries in the collision.
the crash left a large burnt patch on the mcshanes’ front lawn and damaged a pair of vehicles parked in the driveway. their house was hit by a spare tire ejected from the vehicle and a part of its siding was damaged by heat from the fire.
“it could have been way, way worse,” mcshane said. “often we sit out and have drinks in the driveway, so it could have been way, way worse. so the silver lining is nobody was hurt.”
ethan thompson, 24, from mallorytown was charged with 11 offences including robbery with theft, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, dangerous driving, theft of a motor vehicle, possession of stolen property, mischief, impaired driving, failing to remain at the scene of a collision, breach of probation and driving without a licence.
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he was was released from custody and is to appear before the ontario court of justice in kingston on june 10.
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