Wingham Free Press
Members of the Guelph Police Service participated in a RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) event Saturday evening. Approximately 550 motorists were stopped and checked for sobriety. Twelve roadside tests were conducted on drivers who had been drinking, resulting in two three-day driver’s licence suspensions for motorists who registered a ‘warn’ on the roadside device. Such […]
(Ottawa) – A Vancouver man has been arrested and charged with second degree murder in relation to the stabbing death of Christopher Smith in 1996. A review of the cold case by the Ottawa Police Service Homicide Unit detectives and advanced DNA technology were significant to the laying of this charge. 73-year-old Lawrence DIEHL was […]
(WEST NIPISSING, ON) – Two people have been arrested and charged after they fled from police. On December 14, 2024, at approximately 9:20 a.m., the Nipissing West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a possible impaired driver, in a parked vehicle at a business on Front Street, West Nipissing. When police attended the […]
(PEMBROKE, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) 2024 Festive R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign commenced on November 21, 2024, and will continue until January 1, 2025. During the third week of the campaign from December 5 to December 11, 2024, officers from the Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the OPP conducted 12 RIDE checks throughout […]
(ELLIOT LAKE, ON) – A person was arrested and charged again after another traffic complaint reported in Elliot Lake. On September 28, 2024, the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received numerous complaints on Paris Drive about a female driving erratically in a small grey Sport-Utility Vehicle (SUV). The complainants also reported that the girl driving looked […]
(DRYDEN, ON) – Members of the Dryden Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment have arrested and charged one individual after a motor vehicle collision. On December 11, 2024, at approximately 4:00 p.m. members of the Dryden OPP Detachment responded to a motor vehicle collision on Memorial Avenue in the City of Dryden. As a result of […]
(SOUTHWEST MIDDLESEX, ON) – Driver facing multiple charges after traffic stop. On December 14, 2024, at 1:55 a.m., a member of the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), while performing a traffic enforcement initiative on Longwoods Road in Southwest Middlesex, observed a vehicle travelling in excess of the 50km/h speed limit. The vehicle turned into […]
(SELWYN TOWNSHIP, ON) – Officers from the Peterborough County detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged an individual with impaired driving after receiving a complaint about a vehicle stopped on Chemong Road. On Saturday December 14, 2024, the Peterborough County OPP received a call from a concerned motorist reporting that a vehicle was parked […]
(KENORA, ON) – Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Kenora have arrested and charged one individual with assault and weapons charges. On December 12, 2024, at approximately 1:00 PM., members of the Kenora OPP Detachment responded to an incident on Water Street, in the City of Kenora. Officers attended and located and arrested a […]
(KENORA, ON) – Members of the Kenora Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment have arrested and charged one individual with impaired operation. On December 13, 2024, just after 9:30 p.m., members of the Kenora OPP Detachment observed a motor vehicle running in a parking lot in the Cambrian Drive area. Through investigation, it was determined that the […]