Policing

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) search warrants. The warrants were executed in the communities of White River and Wawa, Ontario.   Subsequently, police seized a ...

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 who failed to slow down and move over, marking one of the highest number of annual OPP charges ...

  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, was in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. It would appear the suspects are heading in an easterly direction.   The ...

Members of the public and the media are invited to participate in a Live interactive presentation on our Ontario Provincial Police Facebook page on July 9, 2019, at 19:00 hrs (7:00 pm EST). This is a special opportunity to speak directly with subject matter experts of the OPP’s Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau about methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is one of the most ...

On July 7, 2019, at approximately 4:00 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigated a domestic dispute that occurred in the Town of Chapleau, Ontario. As a result of the investigation, a 38-year-old person, from Chapleau, Ontario, was arrested and charged with the following: Assault – Spousal, contrary to section 266 of the ...

On July 7, 2019, at approximately 10:50 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a disabled pickup truck on Mission Road in Wawa, Ontario. Police attended the location of the vehicle and observed one of the front tires to be separated from the pickup. Further investigation revealed a small quantity of suspected ...

On July 6, 2019, at approximately 12:45 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were conducting traffic enforcement on Highway 129 near Chapleau, Ontario. Officers observed a vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed and initiated a traffic stop. Further investigation revealed the driver to be in breach of his court-ordered conditions. As a result, ...

On Thursday, June 4, 2019, at approximately 12:39 p.m., members from the West Parry Sound Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the West Parry Sound and Sudbury Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and the Britt Fire Department, responded to a collision involving two vehicles on Highway 69 in Mowat Township, Ontario, approximately six kilometers south of the French River. The ...

This past weekend, members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were highly visible conducting traffic enforcement on our local streets and highways. The focus of this year’s Canada Day weekend campaign was the “Big Four” which includes alcohol/drug impaired driving, inattentive driving, aggressive driving and lack of occupant restraint. As a result, the Superior East ...

On June 30, 2019, at approximately 7:00 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a domestic dispute in Chapleau, Ontario. As a result of the investigation, a 37-year-old person was arrested and charged with the following: Assault – Spousal, contrary to section 266 of the Criminal Code (CC). The accused was released ...

On June 21, 2019, at approximately 9:00 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a domestic dispute in Chapleau, Ontario. As a result of the investigation, a 34-year-old person, was arrested and charged with the following: Mischief – Domestic, contrary to section 430(4) of the Criminal Code. The accused was subsequently released and ...

On June 22, 2019, at approximately 10:00 a.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call regarding an assault that had taken place at Seven Mile Lake near Chapleau, Ontario. As a result of the investigation, Micheal HANN, a 40-year-old person, from Chapleau, Ontario, was arrested and charged with the following: Assault Causing ...

A local resident was approached by two men in the parking lot of a local store Friday afternoon. They asked to borrow a phone, they were tourists from Greece, and their english was very poor. The Wawa resident dialed the number for them, and they spoke to someone for a couple of seconds – then handed the phone back. It all ...

On June 1, 2019, at approximately 6:45 p.m., members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a domestic disturbance on Hillcrest Avenue in Wawa, Ontario. As a result of the investigation, a 22-year-old person, from Wawa, Ontario, was arrested and charged with the following: Mischief – Domestic, contrary to section 430(4) of the Criminal ...

On November 30, 2018, members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Temiskaming Detachment were called to investigate a sudden death on Empire Street in Latchford, Ontario. As a result of the investigation, two people have been arrested and charged. On May 7, 2019, Andrew LEVERE, 30-years-old, from Timmins, Ontario, was arrested and charged with Trafficking a Schedule I Substance – ...