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Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon 10° 8° 16° 7° 9° 4° 10° 8° Mutts & Monsters Trending Who will you be Oct. 31? Young Culture www.insidehalton.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Friday, October 28, 2016 | 44 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax SIU probe into man's facial injury by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is looking into a Sunday morning (Oct. 23) incident, that saw a 27-yearold Oakville man sent to hospital following a confrontation with police. SIU spokesperson Monica Hudon said preliminary information suggests Halton police were called to Upper Middle Road East and Grosvenor Street early Sunday for a disturbance. There was an "interaction" between police and a 27-year-old man, the male was arrested and taken to the Oakville police station. "When the man later complained of pain, police transported him to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital," Hudon told the Oakville Beaver in an email. "The man was diagnosed with a facial fracture." According to Halton police, the man is facing charges including, one count of assaulting a police of cer and one count of causing a disturbance. The SIU is an arm's-length agency that investigates reports involving police resulting in death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault. Anyone with information on this investigation to contact 1-800-787-8529. Police called in on animal cruelty case by OMHS by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff For more than 20 years, Oakville's Todd Wirtz has been transforming his Solingate Drive yard into a "haunted house" with more than a dozen in atables as well as sound- or motion-activated Halloween scenes. Once again, he is fundraising for Fare Share Food Bank, hoping to raise 5,000 pounds of food and $5,000 in cash. The spooky scene runs every evening from 7-10 p.m. until Halloween (Oct. 31). For more Halloween coverage, see p. 13, Young Culture, p.15 and Trending Now. | Graham Paine/Metroland The Oakville & Milton Humane Society (OMHS) is asking for the public's help following a shocking incident of animal cruelty, which took place in Oakville last week. On Wednesday, (Oct. 19) the humane society was called to Orion Court (in the Trafalgar and Upper Middle roads area) with reports of a stray cat in distress. Upon examining the feline, humane society agents discovered a mechanical pencil had been forced into the cat's rear end so deeply that it Injured cat caused internal injuries. The animal required surgery to have the pencil removed. The feline's leg had also been injured and a binder see Cat on p.4 DEALS YOU LOVE FOR LESS Visit activities events restaurants travel more!