{"id":77870,"date":"2025-10-23T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=77870"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:19:54","slug":"nipigon-opp-individual-charged-after-fleeing-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/nipigon-opp-individual-charged-after-fleeing-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipigon OPP &#8211; Individual Charged after Fleeing Police"},"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>One individual is facing multiple charges following an incident that led to a social media post to advise the public not to pick up hitchhikers on Sunday, October 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Following an alert to a stolen vehicle shortly after 11:00 a.m., officers from the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) located the vehicle traveling westbound on Highway 17. Upon police presence, the vehicle fled and continued westbound. A spike belt was successfully deployed at approximately 11:53 a.m., disabling the vehicle near the Ruby Creek area. The driver was then observed fleeing on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Following an extensive search, OPP officers located and arrested the individual at approximately 8:32 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Abdul YUSIF, age 36, of London, has been charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession of Property Obtained by Crime Over $5,000<\/li>\n<li>Flight from Peace Officer<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous Operation<\/li>\n<li>Driving While Under Suspension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused was remanded into custody and set to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Thunder Bay on October 22, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One individual is facing multiple charges following an incident that led to a social media post to advise the public not to pick up hitchhikers on Sunday, October 19, 2025. Following an alert to a stolen vehicle shortly after 11:00 a.m., officers from the Nipigon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) located the vehicle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 17:18:18","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\/77870","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=77870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77871,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77870\/revisions\/77871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}