Gravelle and Mauro announce $494,162 in Funding for Asset Forfeiture Project Police efforts to target criminals and seize the proceeds of their criminal activities will get a boost with funding from the McGuinty government, MPP Michael Gravelle and MPP Bill Mauro announced today. The province [Read more]
FROM/DE:Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau DATE: 21 May 2010 Marihuana and Switchblade Knife Seized in Chapleau Search Warrant (Chapleau, ON) –The Ontario Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau Drug Enforcement Unit and the OPP Superior East Detachment executed a [Read more]
FROM/DE: SUPERIOR EAST OPP DATE: May 25, 2010 MISCHIEF AT DOMTAR MILL (WHITE RIVER, ON.) – On May 20, 2010 Superior East OPP attended the Domtar Mill regarding a report of a Break, Enter and Mischief at that location. Investigation revealed that person(s) unknown had entered by [Read more]
HAWK JUNCTION PHONES BACK IN SERVICE (Hawk Junction, ON) – On May 25, 2010 at 10:00 am Bell Canada advised Superior East OPP that the phone lines in Hawk Junction have now been repaired and are back in full service. Service had been out for much of the weekend due to an equipment failure. [Read more]
Dredging Shorelands on Lake Simcoe Proves Costly A Thorah Island landowner and a marine contractor pled guilty to dredging a boat slip on the shorelands of Lake Simcoe. Court heard that on October 22, 2008, conservation officers observed a boat slip that was excavated without the authority of a [Read more]
FROM/DE: Highway Safety Division OPP Ready to Use all Available Resources for UPCOMING May Long Weekend (Marathon, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will use all its available resources [Read more]
Irresponsible & Reckless Feeding of Bears, Compromises Children’s Safety Two large bags of sunflower seeds mixed with molasses and dumped fifty feet from the Nursery School couldn’t have been more reckless and irresponsible by the individual(s) who placed this “meal” for the bears in [Read more]
OPP DRUG SEIZURE STREET VALUE ESTIMATED AT $34 000 MARATHON, ON – On Tuesdaya, May 18th, 2010 at approximately 1:00pm, officers responded to a complaint of a family dispute in progress at 45 Aspendale Drive in the Town of Marathn. Upon arrival the investigation revealed that an assault had [Read more]
THUNDER BAY DETATCHMENT OPP OPP ARREST AND CHARGE IMPAIRED DRIVERS OVER WEEKEND (THUNDER BAY, ON) On Saturday, May 15th, 2010 at approximateley 12:25 am (25 after midnight), a Highway Safety Division Officer ws on patrol in the araea of Highway 11/17 and Oliver Road, when he bserved a 2003 Lincoln [Read more]
NATSCO Mechanical Contractors Inc. Fined $70,000 After Worker Seriously Injured May 13, 2010 3:15 PM Sarnia, Ont. – NATSCO Mechanical Contractors Inc., a Sarnia-based company, was fined $70,000 on May 10 for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) after a worker [Read more]
HUGHES ADVOCATES CONSUMER PROTECTION ON FAIRNESS AT THE PUMPS ACT OTTAWA – Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Carol Hughes spoke in the House of Commons last night to voice her concerns with the Conservative governments Fairness at the Pumps Act. Bill C-14 is meant to address significant problems [Read more]
DATE: May 11, 2010 SINGLE MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION (MARATHON, ON.) –On May 10, 2010 at 07:48am the Marathon OPP responded to a single motor vehicle collision that occurred on Highway 17 approximately 2 km West of Neys Provincial Park. A tractor trailer travelling East bound left the roadway on a [Read more]
MARIHUANA, CIGARETTES SEIZED (WHITE RIVER, ON.) – On May 7, 2010 at approximately 11:14 pm Superior East OPP in White River had occasion to stop a westbound 2009 Pontiac, black in colour bearing British Columbia plates, on Highway 17 20 kilometres south of White River for a traffic violation. [Read more]
Sea King Attracts Attention at Wawa Municipal Airport Written by Brenda Grundt, photos by Marcus Grundt, Superior Image Sunday May 9th, 2010 The Wawa Municipal Airport had an uncommon visitor on Saturday afternoon. A CH-124 Sea King dropped by for fuel as it was on it’s way out to [Read more]
Hwy 17 Closed for 5 Hours Due to Police Cruiser Crash From Sault Ste. Marie OPP Saturday, May 8th (Aweres Twp. ON) Hwy. 17, north of Sault Ste. Marie was closed Saturday morning from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. due to a police vehicle crash. A southbound Marked Police Chev Tahoe lost control on the [Read more]
