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Richard Joseph Arsenault appeared before Chief Judge Nancy Orr in provincial court in Charlottetown for the fourth day of his trial on 17 charges in what police call the “screencutter” case.
The court heard from Cpl. Marc Periard, who is one of the RCMP’s dog handlers in P.E.I.
In August, Periard was the province’s only dog handler and he testified Charlottetown police Deputy Chief Brad MacConnell asked him to go to Cornwall where Arsenault had been spotted.
The police had Arsenault under surveillance at the time.
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On his way there, Periard got a call about an alarm going off at a home in that area, he said.
Periard said his dog Dutch picked up a scent from a driveway near the house that was broken into.
He and Dutch tracked the scent for about two minutes until the dog reached a spot in a parking lot, stopped and looked up at him, Periard said.
“It was so easy.”
Periard testified MacConnell told him that spot was where Arsenault’s vehicle had been parked earlier.
During his testimony, Periard also told the court he had responded to more than 50 calls of break and enters over the past three years and started to see some similarities.
The trial resumes this afternoon.
