Wingham Free Press(ORILLIA, ON.) – Over the holiday weekend, the Orillia Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received 174 calls for service. Police responded to calls received from Severn Township, Ramara Township, and the City of Orillia. The time frame is from Thursday night at 6:00 p.m. until Tuesday morning at 6:00 a.m. There were various calls for service […]
(HALIBURTON, ON)- On Monday, December 28, 2015 at approximately 7:00 pm a lone female was seated in her car in downtown Haliburton waiting for it to warm up. She had just left her place of employment. The driver’s door was suddenly jerked open and a male holding a knife and wearing a black bandana ordered […]
(COCHRANE, ON) – In early December 2015, members of the James Bay Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment – Cochrane, Criminal Investigation Unit and Community Drug Action Team embarked into an investigation after it received a complaint of theft of drugs from a local Cochrane drug store. Investigation revealed approximately 16,000 tablets of various narcotics had […]
(MUNICIPALITY OF MEAFORD, ON) – On Friday, December 25, 2015 at approximately 2:31 a.m., Grey County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to an alarm at Alex’s Gas Bar and Convenience located on Sykes Street South in the Municipality of Meaford. Upon arrival, officers found the front glass door of the business smashed. Several cartons of […]
(Selwyn Township, ON) – Members of the Peterborough County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and emergency crews were called to assist at a collision yesterday just after 2:30pm on Highway 28 north of Clear Lake Road. A northbound pickup truck collided with a southbound minivan on the west side of Highway 28. The […]
(ORILLIA, ON) – Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Child Sexual Exploitation Unit (Project “P”), the Orillia OPP Detachment and the Midland Police Service have arrested and charged an Orillia man following a one week internet luring investigation. On December 23 2015, the OPP Child Sexual Exploitation Unit and the Orillia OPP Detachment, arrested […]
(Bancroft, Ontario) – Shortly after 10:00 P.M. on the 27th of December 2015, police received a report of a vehicle driving erratically on Highway 28, heading into the town of Bancroft. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) located the vehicle a short time later, on Chemaushgon Road in the town of Bancroft. Police initiated […]
(SUDBURY, ON) – On December 26, 2015 at approximately 5:30 p.m., officers from the Sudbury Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received two traffic complaints regarding a red Volkswagen Jetta driving erratically, travelling at a high rate of speed and forcing other motorists to take evasive action in order to avoid a collision. The […]
(SUDBURY, ON) – On December 26, 2015, officers from the Espanola Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of a two vehicle collision on Highway 17, Lorne Township where both involved drivers were irate and yelling at each other. Investigation revealed a Volkswagen Jetta pulled out of Hammersveld Rd. to proceed eastbound […]
(SUDBURY, ON) – While investigating the break, enters and thefts and mischief at the Fairbank Provincial Park in Worthington, officers from the Sudbury Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were able to identify the persons responsible for stealing 1,600 litres of fuel along with an assortment of tools and causing approximately $8,500 of property […]