The Owen Sound Police would like to advise the public of recent Coyote sightings within the city limits. On 25 January 2016 at approximately 12 noon a coyote was observed on the east side of the city. Shortly after midnight another coyote was spotted on the west side of the city. In both cases the […]
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On January 21, 2016 at approximately 4:30 p.m., members of the Owen Sound Police Service Drug Unit and members of the Criminal Investigation Branch raided a home in the 1300 block of 4th Avenue East. The search warrant concluded another investigation of many recently that the drug unit has done into methamphetamine trafficking. Neighbouring residents […]
On January 14, 2016, a member of the Owen Sound Police Service, Community Oriented Response and Enforcement Unit (CORE) was on patrol on the city’s east side. The officer had stopped at a residence briefly then noticed a male he knew was wanted by the police service for using a stolen credit card at local […]
At approximately 4:16 p.m. police, fire & ambulance were tiered via 911 to attend the intersection of 3rd Avenue East at 15th Street East in Owen Sound regarding a serious motor vehicle collision. Owen Sound Fire and Rescue were required to use the Jaws of Life to extricate the 23 year old driver of a […]
At approximately 1:25 a.m. on Thursday (14January2016) morning an officer spotted a vehicle that a citizen had reported earlier in the evening concerned that the driver could possibly be impaired. After turning on the police vehicles emergency roof lights the officer went to exit his vehicle only to find the suspect vehicle reversing towards his […]
Over the last two days there has been an increase in calls to the Owen Sound Police Service regarding tax collection scams. Fortunately all of the callers had suspected a fraud and didn’t give out any information or lose any money. Callers posing as Canada Revenue Agency collectors call unsuspecting victims claiming that they owe […]
During the afternoon of Wednesday December 30th, 2015 the 52 year old male and 36 year old female became involved in verbal and physical altercation, while in the downtown core. As a result the altercation the female received serious head injuries. The female is currently in critical condition at the London Health Sciences Centre. The […]
On Thursday just after 12pm police were called to a three vehicle collision in the 600 block of 10th Street West, Owen Sound. An area woman was the lead in her vehicle with two other vehicles travelling directly behind her. A white pick-up truck was reportedly weaving in and out of traffic and cut off […]
On 29DEC15 during the evening hours, a 35 year old Owen Sound man attended a friend’s residence in the 200 block of 8th Street E, bringing with him some drugs and a 10 week old puppy. The man proceeded to ingest some cannabis and opiates at the apartment. While he was doing this, the puppy […]
The Owen Sound Police Service has received results back on samples sent for analysis. Inspector Stephen MacKinnon stated, “We have received the results on the analysis of two samples of substances we sent to Health Canada and they came back as being the same drug…Fentanyl.” The substances were from the two locations on Monday where […]