On August 3, 2022, members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Forensic Identification Services (FIS), the Sault Ste Marie Crime Unit, North East Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB), North East Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) unit and with the assistance of Batchewana First Nation Police Service began an investigation into the thefts ...

Two individuals face a total of sixteen charges after a road rage incident on Highway 17 in the Nipigon area. On July 29, 2022 at approximately 2:00 p.m., Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Nipigon Detachment received a call about a passenger vehicle that rammed a motorcycle and pushed it off the road. The vehicle failed to stop following the collision and was ...

On July 31, 2022, shortly after 11:30 a.m., members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint of a possible impaired driver driving northbound on Highway 17B from Echo Bay. Batchewana First Nation Police Service observed the vehicle on the four lanes on Highway 17 travelling westbound near Belleau Lake Road ...

The Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charged the dump truck driver in a July 22 collision on Highway 17 near Noon Day Drive within the community of Garden River. On July 22, 2022, at approximately 7:30 a.m., the OPP and Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services responded to a motor vehicle collision involving a dump truck ...

On July 23 and July 25, 2022, the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to two separate death related occurrences in wooded areas near Pipeline Road and Esten Drive North in Elliot Lake. On July 23, 2022, a complainant reported locating a deceased person in a wooded area north of Elliot Lake, near the Pipeline Road. A 67 ...

On July 23, 2022, at approximately 11:10 p.m. the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call regarding a suspicious person trespassing in the backyard at a residence on Westhill Road in Elliot Lake. Police attended the address and located a person sitting on the ground in the backyard. Police attempted to talk to the person with negative results as ...

On July 21, 2022, at approximately 6:00 a.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and a member from the OPP’s Traffic Incident Management Team (T.I.M.E.) Team responded to a complaint where an individual was left behind and was at a local coffee shop in the Town of Blind River. Investigation determined the individual had ...

On July 20, 2022, at approximately 4:30 p.m. the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a disturbance-related occurrence at an apartment on Hutchison Avenue in Elliot Lake. The complainant reported a person creating an excessive loud noise and yelling obscenities from their apartment window. When police attended to speak with the person, they were uncooperative and threatened ...

On July 11, 2022, at approximately 3:00 p.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and a member from the OPP’s Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (T.I.ME.) Team responded to a traffic complaint involving a westbound black pick-up truck weaving all over the road on Highway 17 in the Spragge area. Police located the vehicle on ...

On July 19, 2022, at approximately 9:15 p.m., members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Goulais Fire and Rescue, Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) responded to a marine call in Havilland Bay. Investigation determined two adults and two children were in a boat which was stationary in ...

On July 22, 2022, at approximately 7:30 a.m. p.m., members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services responded to a motor vehicle collision involving a dump truck and a van near Noon Day Drive and Highway 17, within the community of Garden River. One driver was transported via ambulance ...

On July 17, 2022, at approximately 5:30 p.m. members of the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to an unwanted person-related incident at an airport event just south of Elliot Lake. Event security reported an intoxicated male refusing to leave the property and causing damage to signs. Police attended and the person was arrested and escorted off the property. ...

On July 18, 2022, shortly after 6:30 a.m., members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services responded to a single motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 in Laird Township. Police arrived on scene and observed a white car in the westbound ditch on Highway 17. The car rolled and ...

On July 14 2022, members of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon Detachment’s Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant at a residence on Otter Avenue. The warrant was executed with support from the Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Emergency Response Team and Marathon Detachment members. As a result of the search, officers seized suspected crystal methamphetamine, methamphetamine tablets, cocaine, crack ...

On July 17, 2022, shortly after 2:00 p.m., members from the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a motor vehicle collision at a local general store parking lot on Highway 17 in the Town of Goulais River. Investigation determined a vehicle had been sideswiped by another in the parking lot.   The suspect vehicle then left ...