{"id":64651,"date":"2024-01-09T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=64651"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:55:25","slug":"ssm-opp-weapons-charges-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/ssm-opp-weapons-charges-laid\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM OPP &#8211; Weapons Charges Laid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":sc\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/strong>On January 8, 2024, shortly after 1:30 p.m., the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the OPP&#8217;s Emergency Response Team and Community Street Crime Unit responded to an individual that was reportedly holding a beer and waving a firearm at vehicles, trying to flag them down on Highway 17 near Chippewa Falls in Tilley Township.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived on scene a short time later and observed the suspect holding a firearm walking unsteadily in the middle of the highway. \u00a0Police ordered the suspect to drop the 22-caliber rifle.\u00a0At 1:48 p.m., the suspect complied and was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Thomas LIDDLE, 66 years-of-age from Bracebridge, was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handle Firearm, Weapon, Prohibited Device or Ammunition in a Careless Manner<\/li>\n<li>Careless Storage of Firearm, Weapon, Prohibited Device or Ammunition<\/li>\n<li>Unlawfully Possess Loaded Firearm Within 8 Metres of Road<\/li>\n<li>Being Intoxicated in Public Place<\/li>\n<li>Having Liquor in Open Container in Unauthorized Place in Unauthorized Place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Sault Ste Marie on February 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 8, 2024, shortly after 1:30 p.m., the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the OPP&#8217;s Emergency Response Team and Community Street Crime Unit responded to an individual that was reportedly holding a beer and waving a firearm at vehicles, trying to flag them down on Highway 17 near Chippewa &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 03:49:03","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\/64651","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=64651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64652,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64651\/revisions\/64652"}],"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=64651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}