Wingham Free Press(BRUCE TWP, ON) – On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:37 pm, a South Bruce OPP officer on patrol along County Road 15 in Bruce Township stopped a pickup truck for speeding. The officer spoke with the driver and learned that he had been drinking alcohol. 57 year old Gary SCHENK of Drayton has been charged […]
(KINCARDINE, ON) – On March 2nd, 2011 at 11:42 pm, the South Bruce OPP received a report of a Blue car in the ditch along Bruce Avenue in the Municipality of Kincardine. Officers arrived and quickly determined that the driver had been drinking alcohol. 41 year old Juan LAVERDE of Milton has been charged with […]
(HURON EAST, ON) – On Friday March 4, 2011 the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau – Drug Enforcement Unit, with the assistance of the Huron County OPP and West Region ERT, executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant at a residence on St. Charles Place Street in Vanastra. As a […]
(MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTH, ON) On Thursday March 03, 2011 shortly after 1 p.m. a Perth County OPP officer was conducting radar patrol along Hwy. 23 in Atwood. The officer observed a north bound car pass his location whose driver was reading a book. The officer immediately followed the car, observing it weave, striking the […]
(MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTH, ON) On Thursday March 03, 2011 around 2:30 p.m., Perth County OPP officers received a call about a south bound SUV with two young male occupants on Hwy. 23 south of Palmerston driving in a wreck less manner. The vehicle was passing unsafely at a high rate of speed and was […]
(MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTH, ON) In the early morning hours of Monday March 07, 2011, Perth County OPP officers in Listowel were called to the secured Hydro One compound on Bright St. East in Listowel where the equipment yard had been entered. Investigation revealed that sometime between 6 p.m. on Sunday March 06 and 12:45 […]
(BLUEWATER, ON) – On March 4, 2011 at approximately 4:00 pm, a Huron OPP officer on London Road pulled in behind a vehicle stopped at the side of the road with one male occupant urinating beside the car. Upon seeing the cruiser pull up, the male jumped back in the car. The officer approached the […]
(CENTRAL HURON, ON) – On March 5, 2011 shortly before 10:00 pm, Huron OPP officers were called to assist with traffic control for a structure fire located at the Bluffs Motel on Bluewater Highway. No one was injured in a fire that demolished the building. Police remain on scene pending the arrival of an investigator […]
(ST.MARYS, ON) On Wednesday evening March 02, 2011, Perth County OPP in St.Marys made an arrest in the February 27th false fire alarm activation at the Pyramid Recreation Centre on James St. South in St.Marys. As a result of a Perth County OPP investigation, cooperation between the Pyramid Centre staff and the St.Marys Fire Department, […]