{"id":28515,"date":"2020-02-10T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=28515"},"modified":"2020-02-10T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:26:03","slug":"charges-laid-in-drug-overdose-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/charges-laid-in-drug-overdose-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges laid in Drug Overdose Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 7, 2020, members of the North Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Unit, under the direction of Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), have charged one person as a result of a drug overdose, which claimed a life in East Ferris Township, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>On August 15, 2019, police were called to a residence on Marina Road in East Ferris Township, where Andrew DUQUETTE, 32-years-old, was found deceased. The investigation has revealed that the victim died as a result of a drug overdose.<\/p>\n<p>Eric CHAMPAGNE, 29-years-old, from East Ferris Township, has been charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manslaughter, contrary to section 236(b) of the Criminal Code (CC); and with<\/li>\n<li>Criminal Negligence Causing Death, contrary to section 220(b) of the CC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused was released from custody and is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice located in North Bay on February 11, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has investigated 34 occurrences where charges have been laid for Manslaughter and\/or Criminal Negligence Causing Death in relation to fatal overdoses since 2016. Of these occurrences, this is the first this year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or their local police. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or submit information at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.p3tips.com<\/a>\u00a0where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 7, 2020, members of the North Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Unit, under the direction of Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), have charged one person &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 20:08:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28516,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28515\/revisions\/28516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}