{"id":78391,"date":"2025-11-19T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=78391"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:18:49","slug":"nipigon-opp-arrest-made-in-theft-of-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/nipigon-opp-arrest-made-in-theft-of-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipigon OPP &#8211; Arrest made in Theft of Gas"},"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 November 18, 2025, at approximately 6:15 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Nipigon Detachment responded to a report of gas theft from a business on Rock Bay First Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Officers quickly located the suspect vehicle and discovered it had been reported stolen from Thunder Bay. Further investigation revealed additional offences.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, two individuals from Thunder Bay have been charged:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Patricia WHYTE, 41,<\/strong> is<strong> c<\/strong>harged under the <strong>Criminal Code<\/strong> with:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Theft under $5,000<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm<\/li>\n<li>Possession of a Firearm Contrary to Prohibition Order<\/li>\n<li>Possession of Property Obtained by Crime Over $5,000<\/li>\n<li>Five counts of Failure to Comply with Release Order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Denis BERNARD, 41 <\/strong>is<strong> c<\/strong>harged under the <strong>Criminal Code<\/strong> with:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Theft under $5,000<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm<\/li>\n<li>Possession of a Firearm Contrary to Prohibition Order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both accused were held for a bail hearing and remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP reminds the public: If you have information about this investigation or any crime, please contact the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Anonymous tips can be submitted through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at https:\/\/ontariocrimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 18, 2025, at approximately 6:15 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Nipigon Detachment responded to a report of gas theft from a business on Rock Bay First Nation. Officers quickly located the suspect vehicle and discovered it had been reported stolen from Thunder Bay. Further investigation revealed additional offences. As a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 07:10:48","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\/78391","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78392,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78391\/revisions\/78392"}],"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=78391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}