{"id":73674,"date":"2025-05-06T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=73674"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:54:30","slug":"east-algoma-opp-charges-laid-after-report-of-a-person-with-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/east-algoma-opp-charges-laid-after-report-of-a-person-with-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Charges Laid after Report of a person with Pistol"},"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 May 3, 2025, at approximately 5:15 p.m., the reporter witnessed a male drop a pistol from a bag in his pocket while inside a convenience store on Hillside Drive South. The male then departed the store on foot and a description was provided to police. Within minutes, police arrived in the area, located the male, and conducted a high-risk arrest. After a search was conducted, a black Winchester air pistol in a plastic bag was located in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>Sky FOX, 30-years-old from Elliot Lake, was charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Possession of weapon for dangerous purpose<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Failure to comply with Undertaking<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The accused was scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice Bail Court in Blind River on May 4, 2025.<\/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 (or members of the public) 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 May 3, 2025, at approximately 5:15 p.m., the reporter witnessed a male drop a pistol from a bag in his pocket while inside a convenience store on Hillside Drive South. The male then departed the store on foot and a description was provided to police. Within minutes, police arrived in the area, located the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 23:59:10","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\/73674","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=73674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73675,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73674\/revisions\/73675"}],"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=73674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}