Wingham Free PressOn Sunday January 15, 2017 at approximately 1:45 p.m., London Police officers attended an address on Conway Drive in relation to a home invasion-style robbery. Three males forced their way into a home, occupied by the residents. The suspects were armed with weapons, assaulted the male resident and tied up the female resident before fleeing […]
Man falls in slippery conditions and unable to move Just before 8am on January 16th, an east-end resident noticed a man with a dog laying on the ground in a near-by park. The compassion for his well-being prompted a call to police and that concern was well-appreciated when police arrived and learned that the man […]
(GUELPH-ERAMOSA TOWNSHIP, ON) – The Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Unit have charged two men after a lengthy investigation into serious incidents that occurred at a Guelph-Eramosa Township address. The investigation commenced in early December, 2016. Through the course of the investigation, it has been determined that between 1981 and 1986, alleged sexually […]
4:49 AM EST Tuesday 17 January 2017 Freezing rain warning in effect for: Goderich – Bluewater – Southern Huron County Listowel – Milverton – Northern Perth County Stratford – Mitchell – Southern Perth County Wingham – Blyth – Northern Huron County Ice build-up due to freezing rain is expected or occurring. Freezing rain will change […]
Ever wonder what happens when you stand up to North Huron council? Other than having town staff and council lie to police to get innocent people arrested and humiliated, or calling the boss of a critic trying to get them fired, or sending in the bylaw officer to trespass on your property? Now you probably […]
(SAUGEEN FIRST NATION, ON) – On Wednesday, January 11, 2017, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau – Drug Enforcement Unit, with the assistance of West Region Emergency Response Team, executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant at a property on Highway 21, Saugeen First Nations. As a result of the […]
(CAMPBELLFORD, ON) –On January 16, 2017 at 2:47pm the Northumberland detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to an industrial accident that occurred at a business in Tanner Industrial Park Campbellford. Reports indicate that an employee was working in a rear parking lot between two 53 foot trailers when one of them moved in […]
(LAKESHORE, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged a Kingsville, Ontario man with Stunt Driving, under the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario. On January 13, 2017 at approximately 11:30 p.m., OPP officers were conducting stationary radar observation on Highway 3 in Lakeshore, Ontario when a vehicle travelling eastbound near the Ellis side road […]
(ARMOUR TWP, ON) – The Almaguin Highlands Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was patrolling Highway 11, Armour Township on Friday January 13, 2017 at approximately 6:00 p.m. when they stopped a vehicle for following too closely. Police conducted an investigation and the driver of the vehicle, Wilma WITTMAN, 56 of Machar Township was subsequently arrested for […]
(SEELEY’S BAY, ON) – Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Child Sexual Exploitation Unit (CSEU) assisted by the Technological Crime Unit and Leeds County OPP Detachment have arrested and charged a Seeley’s Bay man following a child pornography investigation. On January 12, 2017, investigators arrested Peter Mark PETTEM, age 52 years, of Seeley’s Bay […]