{"id":46210,"date":"2021-07-22T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=46210"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:45:49","slug":"east-algoma-opp-arrest-made-in-theft-of-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/east-algoma-opp-arrest-made-in-theft-of-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Arrest made in theft of generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20, 2021, shortly after 9:00 a.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a stolen generator sometime overnight at a residence on Hudson Street in the Town of Blind River.\u00a0The complainant provided video footage where a person could be seen carrying a small generator from the complainant&#8217;s backyard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the suspect person in the video and on this same date at approximately 9:30 p.m., police observed a male on Glenn Avenue matching the description of the suspect in the video and an arrest was made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Christopher MERCER, 42 years-of-age from Blind River, was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theft Under $5000, contrary to section 334(b) of the Criminal Code (C)<\/li>\n<li>Possession Property Obtained by Crime Under $5000, contrary to section 355(b) of the CC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Blind River on September 9, 2021 and the generator was later recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 20, 2021, shortly after 9:00 a.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a stolen generator sometime overnight at a residence on Hudson Street in the Town of Blind River.\u00a0The complainant provided video footage where a person could be seen carrying a small &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-46210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district","tag-east-algoma-opp"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 09:45:50","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\/46210","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=46210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46211,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46210\/revisions\/46211"}],"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=46210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}