{"id":68566,"date":"2024-08-15T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=68566"},"modified":"2024-08-15T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T12:00:02","slug":"east-algoma-opp-opp-resond-to-gun-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/east-algoma-opp-opp-resond-to-gun-call\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; OPP resond to gun call"},"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 August 13, 2024, at approximately 11:00 a.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called in relation to a man on a bicycle with a handgun at an apartment complex parking lot on Mississauga Avenue in Elliot Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Police located the man and bicycle a short time later at a residence on Tokyo Crescent.\u00a0The man attempted to evade officers, and after a short altercation, he was safely arrested. The handgun was safely recovered, and it was only then that police learned it was an airsoft pistol made to look like a real gun.<\/p>\n<p>Heiko SCHMITZ, 53-years-old from Elliot Lake, was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carrying concealed weapon<\/li>\n<li>Possession of weapon for dangerous purpose<\/li>\n<li>Possession of firearm or Ammunition contrary to Prohibition Order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice Bail Court in Blind River on August 14, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Is It Real or Fake?<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It is often difficult for police officers to tell the difference between imitation and\u00a0real guns during intense and dangerous situations. Imitation or airsoft <\/em><em>guns can look very real, depending on modifications. Then, if used for the wrong purposes, not only do applicable charges apply, but police response is at an extremely heightened level.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 13, 2024, at approximately 11:00 a.m., the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called in relation to a man on a bicycle with a handgun at an apartment complex parking lot on Mississauga Avenue in Elliot Lake. Police located the man and bicycle a short time later at a residence on Tokyo &#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":[],"class_list":["post-68566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 06:53:57","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\/68566","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=68566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68567,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566\/revisions\/68567"}],"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=68566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}