Sudbury.com has learned that the North Bay Police Service is actively investigating new charges against Robert Steven Wright.
Wright was convicted of second-degree murder March 29 for the stabbing death of Renée Sweeney, who was killed in her workplace on Jan. 27, 1998. He has been incarcerated since his arrest in 2018.
Wright was arrested in North Bay on that charge.
Though North Bay Police Cst. Merv Shantz could not comment on the nature of it, he confirmed that there is an active investigation ongoing.
Born in Sudbury, Wright lived in North Bay and worked as an ER laboratory technician at North Bay Regional Health Centre.
On June 29, he was sentenced to 12 years of a life sentence before he would be eligible for parole.
When he set the parole eligibility at 12 years, Justice Robbie Gordon noted Wright had no involvement with the justice system in the years since the murder, had “amiable and prosocial relationships" and that as he was 18 years old at the time of the crime, his actions were consistent with “a young man in panic mode.”
