{"id":52920,"date":"2022-03-25T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=52920"},"modified":"2022-03-25T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:24:08","slug":"east-algoma-opp-multiple-firearms-offences-charges-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/east-algoma-opp-multiple-firearms-offences-charges-laid\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Multiple Firearms Offences Charges Laid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 16, 2022, shortly after 7:30 a.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a disturbance call on Youngfox Road in the Town of Blind River.<\/p>\n<p>Information gleaned during the investigation led to a warrant being executed at the residence with the assistance of the OPP&#8217;s East Algoma Crime Unit, Canine Unit and OPP Forensic Identification Services (FIS). Police located and seized over 80 firearms, which included prohibited, restricted and non-restricted firearms as well as various types of ammunition, high capacity magazines, rifle parts\/barrels, suppressors, smokeless powder, flares, primers, grenades and explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Also supporting the investigation were members of the OPP&#8217;s Provincial Weapons Enforcement Unit (PWEU) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, Steve BRISBOIS, 57 years-of-age from Blind River was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm, contrary to section 91(1) of the Criminal Code (CC) (three counts)<\/li>\n<li>Careless Storage of a Firearm, Weapon, Prohibited Device or Ammunition, contrary to section 86(1) of the CC<\/li>\n<li>Explosives-Making or Possessing for Unlawful Purpose, contrary to section 82(1) of the CC (two counts)<\/li>\n<li>Possession of Prohibited Device or Ammunition, contrary to section 92(2) of the CC (two counts)<\/li>\n<li>Possession of a Firearm Knowing Serial Number Has Been Tampered With, contrary to section 108(1)(b) of the CC (four counts)<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of Unauthorized Possession of Firearm-Licence, contrary to section 92(2) of the CC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice Video Bail in Blind River on March 16, 2022 and was remanded into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 16, 2022, shortly after 7:30 a.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a disturbance call on Youngfox Road in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":50863,"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-52920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 07:55:40","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\/52920","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=52920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52921,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52920\/revisions\/52921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}