Monday, December 1, 2014 02:00hrs Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police advise of the following Road Opening: Location: Highway 17 between Terrace Bay and Marathon Re-Opened: 01 Dec 2014 @ 0200 hrs. Please do not call O.P.P. Provincial Communication Centres for road advisory [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Thursday November 27th, 2014 at approximately 5:40pm, officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment observed a motor vehicle approaching Highway 17 from Deadhorse Road. A traffic stop of the vehicle was conducted resulting in the driver of the [Read more]
MARATHON ON –On Saturday the 13th of September 2014 approximately 2:00 pm, Officers from the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) observed a vehicle partially in the westbound ditch of Hwy 17 in Pic Township. Investigation revealed that the vehicle had been reported as [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Thursday the 11th of September 2014 approximately 9:45pm, officers from the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a call regarding a Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC) involving a single motor vehicle. The Superior North EMS and Marathon Fire [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – The Marathon OPP just located a stolen vehicle in the ditch on Hwy 17 3 KM East of the Pik River bridge. The male suspect fled on foot into the bush. OPP officers continue to look for the suspect and are requesting motorists advise them if they observe a male hitch-hiker [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – The search for a male involved in a dispute August 31, 2014 in Marathon has ended. At approximately 6:50pm September 3, 2014 police located Bobby CHARBONNEAU (26) of Marathon deceased of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was found in a wooded area southeast of Hemlo [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – August 20, 2014 Highway 17, approximately 3km West of Penninsula Road (Marathon turn-off), was closed for several hours following a motor vehicle collision involving a pick-up truck and a transport. Drivers waited patiently, many taking the opportunity to get out and stretch or [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Sunday July 27, 2014 at approximately 3:50pm, officers from the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call regarding a sailboat that had capsized at the east end of Peninsula Harbour on Lake Superior. The caller and a passenger were sitting on the [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – July 19, 2014 at approximately 11:50 p.m. in the Town of Schreiber, members of the Schreiber Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop on Langworthy Street, Schreiber. Upon speaking to the driver of a pick-up truck, officers found that the [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Thursday June 26, 2014 approximately 07:50pm, officers from the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a call regarding a Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC) involving an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and a motor vehicle. Superior North EMS and Marathon Fire [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Thursday March 20th, 2014, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment received a call for an alarm at the Marathon Center Mall. Officers attended the area and located a male exiting the rear of the building from an access door to the Marathon Drug Associates. Joseph [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Tuesday November 26, 2013 around 5:00 am, two females were walking eastbound along Mobert Road in the Pic Mobert First Nation community. A pickup truck was driving westbound and struck one of the females as she crossed the road in front of the vehicle. Superior North EMS attended [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Monday November 25, 2013 members of the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to several collisions on Highway 17 in the vicinity of Marathon ON. Around 9:00 am, approximately 4 km west of Marathon, a westbound commercial motor vehicle (CMV) failed [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Saturday September 14, 2013 officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment and Anishinabek Police Service (APS) were notified of a possible impaired male that left the community center in Pic River First Nation in a vehicle. Officers located the suspect [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Saturday, August 31st, 2013 approximately 3:50 pm, an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) was travelling on a downhill trail with a lone male occupant. The driver failed to negotiate a right turn to continue on the main bush road and went down a steep embankment. The driver, who was not [Read more]
