Wingham Free Press(TOWNSHIP OF SOUTHGATE, ON) – On Thursday, October 2, 2014, at approximately 11:35 a.m., Grey County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of a break-in at the Whyte Industrial Depot located on Main Street East, Dundalk, in the Township of Southgate. Sometime between 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30th and 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, […]
(CITY OF GUELPH, ON) – On October 1, 2014 at approximately 7:25 p.m., a Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer was on patrol and observed a male driving a 2009 Volkswagen speeding westbound on Stone Road east of Victoria Road, Guelph. The vehicle registered a speed of 122 km/h in a 60 km/h zone. […]
(WEST PARRY SOUND, ON) – On October 2, 2014 the West Parry Sound Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was conducting radar enforcement on Highway 400 in Carling Township. At approximately 10:19 p.m., a northbound black Ford truck was observed travelling at a high rate of speed and subsequently a traffic stop was conducted. As a result […]
(Township of South Frontenac) Frontenac OPP would like to remind drivers of All-Terrain Vehicles (ATV’s) not to drive on other people’s property as a short cut to a road or trail. Complaints have been reported to the Frontenac OPP in the Harrowsmith area of ATV’s trespassing on private property cutting through the field to access […]
(Bancroft, Ontario) – On the morning of Friday the 03rd of October 2014, the Bancroft detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received the report of a vehicle theft. Sometime since 6 p.m. the previous night a red Dodge Dakota was stolen from a driveway on Monck Street in the Town of Bancroft. Anyone with […]
(Frankville, ON.) – Officers of the Leeds Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are continuing with investigations where hypodermic needles have been located along the side of the road on County Road 29, Elizabethtown – Kitley Township.Between the area of Frankville and Addison needles have been located along the shoulder of the road. Members […]
Recently a impaired driver contacted Wingham Free Press in the hopesof getting his/her name removed from the internet. While WFPmay have been the first to start publishing the names of impaireddrivers, we are not the only ones that do so now. A quicksearch quickly revealed this impaired driver is listed on severalNews sites that are […]
Last week WFP posted photos of neglected trash, blocked storm drainsand crumbling streets in Wingham. This was done in the hopesthat current head of Public Works would take action. Use thefollowing link to read last week’s write up. <ahref=http://www.thewinghamfreepress.com/story.shtml?story=22201″>MorePhotos Of Town Staff Neglecting Their Duties And Letting OurInfrastructure Rot & Crumble Last week’s attempt to […]
(MUNICIPALITY OF HURON EAST, ON) On Friday October 03, 2014, shortly after the early morning arrest of a male motorist who failed to stop for police in Auburn, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers attended at a residence on Cranbrook Road in Brussels later in the morning and executed a search warrant. Members of the OPP […]
(MILDMAY, ON) – On September 27, 2014 at 7:44 am, the South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call to assist the West Grey Police Service with a missing person search. On October 3, 2014, the West Region OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT) and OPP Canine Unit located the body of a male. The […]