SUPERIOR EAST, ON – Members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will be focusing on Distracted Driving this Labour Day Long Weekend from Friday August 30 to Monday September 2, 2019. The OPP will be educating road users in an effort to change driving [Read more]
OWEN SOUND, ON – The Ontario Conservation Officers Association (OCOA) is pleased to announce that Marco Grigio has been selected as the 2019 Conservation Officer of the Year. Marco currently works for the Thunder Bay Enforcement Unit also previously working in Armstrong in the Nipigon District. [Read more]
WAWA, ON – On August 21, 2019, at approximately 11:40 p.m., a member of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was conducting routine patrols in Wawa, Ontario. The officer observed a minivan on Mission Road and proceeded to query the licence plate of the [Read more]
2nd update, see original update below THUNDER BAY, ON – On August 19, 2019, at approximately 6:05 p.m., officers from the Thunder Bay and Nipigon Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Shuniah Fire and Emergency Services and Superior North Emergency Medical Service (EMS) [Read more]
NIPIGON, ON -On Monday, August 19th, 2019, at approximately 9:45 pm officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were contacted by a member of the public advising someone had stolen their pickup truck from their driveway. Officers conducted patrols locating the stolen vehicle approximately 5 [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – On August 19, 2019 at approximately 6:05 pm officers from the Thunder Bay and Nipigon Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a multi vehicle collision on Highway 11/17, near Pearl, ON (East of Thunder Bay). The Highway is expected to be closed for [Read more]
WAWA, ON – On August 15, 2019, members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a theft call at a Bell tower site near Montreal River Harbour, Ontario. Six reels of copper wire were taken from a utility trailer located at the remote construction [Read more]
WHITE RIVER, ON – On August 7, 2019, members from the North East Region Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) with the assistance of members from the Pic River Anishinabek Police Service (APS), executed three separate Controlled Drugs and Substance Act (CDSA) [Read more]
Convicted: D & G Logging Ltd., 168 Government Road, Kapuskasing, Ontario, a small logging company near Manitouwadge, Ontario Location of Worksite: Near Long Pond Road in the Big Pic Forest north of Wawa and Lake Superior. Description of Offence: A worker was killed when the boom of a [Read more]
No Confirmed Sighting of British Columbia Suspects ORILLIA, ON – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is currently investigating numerous reports from across the province of suspicious vehicles and or young males believed to be the British Columbia homicide suspects. The OPP continues to work [Read more]
KAPUSKASING, ON – At approximately 10:35 a.m., on July 31, 2019, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) James Bay Detachment in Kapuskasking received a report about a suspicious vehicle driving through a construction zone on Highway 11 in Kapuskasing. At this time the OPP cannot confirm [Read more]
Update: #Incident #Marathon #HWY17 WB from Peninsula Rd (Marathon) to Terrace Bay, WB lane is open and traffic will be alternated. Traffic control is in place and delays may occur. Please use caution in the area. #ONHwys — 511ONNorthwestern (@511ONNorthwest) July 31, 2019 MARATHON, ON -On [Read more]
ORILLIA, ON – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is concerned by the number of drivers who ignore Ontario’s Move Over Law and place police, other emergency personnel and tow truck drivers at risk on the roadside. The OPP laid 1,891 charges last year against drivers [Read more]
GREENSTONE, ON – On July 22nd, 2019 officers from the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Community Street Crime Unit and the North West Emergency Response Team (ERT) executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant on a Longlac residence. Police seized: 762 Oxycodone [Read more]
NORTHWEST REGION HEADQUARTERS, ON – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are issuing a public safety warning in relation to the suspects in a British Columbia homicide of a young couple along with another death. The last confirmed sighting of the suspects, Kam McLEOD and Bryer SCHMEGELSKY, [Read more]
