{"id":66211,"date":"2024-03-29T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=66211"},"modified":"2024-03-29T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:22:33","slug":"nipigon-opp-contraband-tobacco-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/nipigon-opp-contraband-tobacco-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipigon OPP &#8211; Contraband Tobacco Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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>On the afternoon of March 28, 2024, an officer working from the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop for speed on Hwy 11&amp;17 in the Township of Nipigon.<\/p>\n<p>During the traffic stop the officer observed cannabis in the vehicle readily available to the driver. A search of the motor vehicle under the Cannabis Control Act turned up over 1000 unmarked cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, a 34-year-old male from Winnipeg, Manitoba has been fined over $1200.00 and charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speeding, Section 128 of the Highway Traffic Act<\/li>\n<li>Possession of unmarked cigarettes, Section 29(2) of the Tobacco Tax Act<\/li>\n<li>Drive a motor vehicle with cannabis readily available, Section 12(1) of the Cannabis Control Act 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is against the law to have any packages of cigarettes or fine-cut tobacco that do not have a legal tobacco stamp. Consequences include civil penalties, and, if charged and convicted of an offence, possible fines, jail time or both.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on the Tobacco Tax Act of Ontario &#8211; call the Ministry of Finance at 1-866-668-8297<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the afternoon of March 28, 2024, an officer working from the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop for speed on Hwy 11&amp;17 in the Township of Nipigon. During the traffic stop the officer observed cannabis in the vehicle readily available to the driver. A search of the motor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 10:52:07","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\/66211","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=66211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66212,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66211\/revisions\/66212"}],"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=66211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}