Wingham Free Press
(HURON COUNTY, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is taking action to help reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 by restricting the access to its facilities, including detachments, across the province. The OPP is limiting the processing of routine criminal record checks/vulnerable sector checks and finger printing to essential workers/volunteers only. Anyone seeking entry to OPP […]
Publish Date: Dec 30, 2020Incident Date: Dec 6, 2020Location: WATERLOO, ON Canada On December 30, 2020, members of the Waterloo Regional Police Service’s Break, Enter and Vehicle Theft team completed an investigation into two residential break and enters that occurred in Waterloo during the month of December. On December 6, 2020, the suspect allegedly entered an apartment building […]
(LAKESHORE, ON) – On December 30, 2020 at 6:08 p.m. a car was struck by a Via Rail train on Golfview Drive near Valentino Avenue, Lakeshore. There were no injuries to the driver of the vehicle or passengers on the train. The driver of the car has been charged with fail to give way to railway […]
(TOWNSHIP OF WELLINGTON NORTH, ON) – On December 25, 2020, at approximately 10:00 p.m. the Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a passenger vehicle stuck in the snow on the front lawn of a home on Albert Street near Egremont Street South in Mount Forest. Police spoke with the driver and […]
(TOWNSHIP OF PUSLINCH, ON) – On December 24, 2020, at approximately 8:30 p.m. members of the Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a person armed with a knife attempting to break into a residence in the area of Darkwood Road and Little Road in Puslinch Township. It was reported that the […]
(TOWNSHIP OF WELLINGTON NORTH, ON) – On December 26, 2020, at approximately 1:30 p.m. Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with Guelph-Wellington Paramedic Services and the Wellington North Fire Service responded to a collision involving a snowmobile at an address on Second Line in the Township of Wellington North. It was reported that a 13-year-old […]
(MIDDLESEX, ON) – On December 29, 2020 at 01:35 a.m. Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) located a motor vehicle weaving in its lane and striking a curb on Industrial Rd. in the City of London. A traffic stop was completed and as a result of an investigation police have charged the driver Mark MOSCHUK – […]
(LEAMINGTON, ON) – On December 27, 2020, shortly after 9:00 a.m. Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Leamington officers responded to a complainant of ongoing church services in the 1300 block of Mersea Road 8, Leamington in which more than 10 people were attending contrary to current restrictions. Upon police arrival, officers observed several people inside the church, well […]
(WELLINGTON COUNTY, ON) – As a result of an ongoing internal investigation, members with the OPP Office of Professionalism, Respect, Inclusion and Leadership (previously known as Professional Standards Bureau) arrested an officer on December 28, 2020. Sergeant Jamie GILLESPIE, a 20-year member, currently serving at the Wellington County OPP Detachment, has been charged with the following […]
Publish Date: Dec 29, 2020Incident Date: Dec 28, 2020Location: EDWARD ST, CAMBRIDGE, ON Canada On December 28, 2020, at approximately 9:45 p.m., Waterloo Regional Police responded to the area of Edward Street and Johnston Avenue in Cambridge for a report of a robbery. The victim had arranged to sell an item online through a buy and sell website […]