Wingham Free PressIn the afternoon hours of Tuesday October 17, 2017, the Owen Sound Police Service Drugs and Intelligence Unit, with the assistance of the Criminal Investigations Branch and Uniformed officers, arrested four individuals in the downtown area who were believed to be trafficking cocaine, heroin and Fentanyl in the City of Owen Sound and surrounding area. […]
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 the Owen Sound Police Service Drug Unit were conducting a focused investigation into drug trafficking activities in the City’s downtown core. At 3:25pm Officers identified and arrested a 39 year old Collingwood man in the 900 block of 3rd Avenue East. The man was found to be violating his court […]
On October 5 th , 2017 at 12:45 a.m. a uniformed patrol officer observed 2 youths operating an E-bike in downtown Owen Sound without helmets. The officer investigated and discovered that both boys were in breach of conditions of probation they had each entered into. One of the boys was disobeying his curfew, while the […]
On Wednesday October 4 th , 2017 just before 5:00 p.m. the Owen Sound Police received a complaint of a possible impaired driver leaving the area of the LCBO situated on the east side of the city. A description of the vehicle and the driver was broadcasted to the patrol units. An officer spotted the […]
On 18 September 2017 shortly after 8:00pm Owen Sound Police Service along with Owen Sound Fire were alerted to a vehicle fire on 28 th Avenue East. The vehicle, a brown 2007 Pontiac Montana van was completely destroyed by the fire. Police contacted the vehicles owner who was unaware the vehicle had been stolen. Police […]
On Thursday, September 14, 2017, at approximately 9:00 am, the Owen Sound Police Service, Criminal Investigations Bureau and Intelligence Unit arrested an 18 year old man for multiple counts of sexual assault and sexual interference. The investigation began when teen-aged girls reported being inappropriately groped at an Owen Sound high school. The accused was not […]
The Owen Sound Police responded to two separate motor vehicle collisions on Monday evening (September 11 th ) on a section of road that had been closed due to construction. At least two drivers disregarded the road closure signs leading to the 2000 block of 8 th Street East in the city which was only […]
A 36 year old male is in custody after committing three robberies in less than an hour on the east side of Owen Sound. Just after 9:00 a.m, front-line officers responded to the area of 8th Street and 16th Avenue East for a report of a male who had been robbed and struck in the […]
On Friday, September 1, 2017, five (5) separate fires were extinguished by the Owen Sound Fire and Inter-Township Fire Departments in the downtown area of Owen Sound. In the early afternoon of Monday, September 4, 2017, the Owen Sound Police arrested a 42 year old Owen Sound man for Arson. As a result of the […]
At approximately 5:40 Sunday morning (3 rd Sept. 2017) a lone male broke into a business on the west side of the city. The man had found a door that had accidentally been left unlocked. After gaining entry he rummaged through the building selecting various items. Fortunately, video surveillance of the exterior of the building […]