Wingham Free Press
(ORILLIA, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is announcing that, as of today, it will be using the mobile application what3words in its Provincial Communications Centres (PCCs). In an emergency situation, if a caller contacts an OPP PCC and doesn’t know where they are, the app will help call-takers pinpoint the caller’s location so that […]
(PEMBROKE, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) 2020 Festive R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign commenced on November 21, 2020 and will continue until January 2, 2021. During the first week of the campaign from November 21 to November 27, officers from the Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the OPP conducted 17 RIDE checks throughout the […]
(SOUTH HURON, ON) – Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers are investigating the recent theft of a pickup truck stolen from a business located south of Exeter. The stolen truck was taken from a parking lot of a business located on Crediton Road on November 26, 2020. At approximately 4:30 a.m. suspects entered into the parking […]
(NORTH HURON, ON) – A Morris-Turnberry resident is facing a shoplifting charge after he was caught last week stealing from a grocery store in Wingham. Shortly before 2:00 p.m. on November 23, 2020 a Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer happened to be in the right spot at the right time in Wingham when a […]
(PEMBROKE, ON) – On November 26, 2020 members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Canine Unit executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at a residence in the 200 block of Pembroke Street West in the City of Pembroke. As a result of the […]
(HOWICK, ON) – A fatal two-vehicle crash that took place this summer on Harriston Road has now resulted in charges against a Howick resident. Brandon COX, a 24-year-old from Clifford was killed in the collision that took place on August 19, 2020 west of Harriston. Investigators from the West Region OPP Traffic Incident Management & Enforcement […]
(BRACEBRIDGE, ON) – Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police is disappointed to report that the Festive RIDE campaign that began on November 26, 2020 has netted two impaired drivers over the course of the weekend. On Saturday November 28, 2020 at 11:15 p.m. police responded to a head on collision on Highway 11 North near Beaver Ridge […]
(TOWNSHIP OF GUELPH-ERAMOSA, ON) – On November 29, 2020, at approximately 4:30 p.m. Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a motor vehicle driving erratically on Highway 7 near Watson Road in the Township of Guelph-Eramosa. Police located the vehicle and spoke with the driver and determined that their ability to operate […]
(COUNTY OF BRANT, ON) – County of Brant, Oxford, Norfolk, Huron and Elgin Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Units (CSCU) with the OPP West Region Emergency Response Team along with Niagara Regional Police Criminal Investigations Unit executed a search warrant at a business on Brant School Road in Cainsville in the County of Brant […]
(NORFOLK COUNTY, ON) – On Friday, November 27, 2020, at approximately 10:04 p.m., an officer with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Norfolk County Detachment stopped and investigated a vehicle at a Charlotteville Road 5, Charlotteville, Norfolk County address. As a result, police charged 19-year-old Trent Jason JACKSON of Norfolk County, Ontario with the following offences: · Operation […]