{"id":78408,"date":"2025-11-19T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=78408"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:38:41","slug":"thunder-bay-opp-drug-trafficking-charges-laid-after-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/thunder-bay-opp-drug-trafficking-charges-laid-after-traffic-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay OPP &#8211; Drug Trafficking Charges Laid after Traffic Stop"},"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>Two individuals are facing drug trafficking charges following a traffic stop in the Municipality of Shuniah.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, shortly before 11:30 a.m., members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop for a violation under the Highway Traffic Act. During the investigation, officers located 18 kilograms of suspected cocaine inside the vehicle. The estimated street value of the seized drugs is approximately $1,800,000. Following further investigation, the following charges were laid:<\/p>\n<p>Kaiona HAZEL, age 26 of Oshawa was charged with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession of a Schedule I Substance for the purpose of trafficking &#8211; cocaine<\/li>\n<li>Traffick in Schedule I Substance &#8211; cocaine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ashley NEWELL, age 29 of Ajax was charged with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession of a Schedule I Substance for the purpose of trafficking &#8211; cocaine<\/li>\n<li>Traffick in Schedule I substance &#8211; cocaine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both accused were held for bail and will be appearing before the Ontario Court of Justice in Thunder Bay at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information about the trafficking of illicit drugs, call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two individuals are facing drug trafficking charges following a traffic stop in the Municipality of Shuniah. On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, shortly before 11:30 a.m., members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop for a violation under the Highway Traffic Act. During the investigation, officers located 18 &#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-78408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 07:10:15","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\/78408","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=78408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78409,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78408\/revisions\/78409"}],"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=78408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}