{"id":79022,"date":"2025-12-09T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=79022"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:41:37","slug":"opp-anti-rackets-branch-arb-arrest-made-following-investigation-into-suspected-irregularities-in-archaeological-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/opp-anti-rackets-branch-arb-arrest-made-following-investigation-into-suspected-irregularities-in-archaeological-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"OPP Anti-Rackets Branch (ARB) &#8211; Arrest made following investigation into suspected irregularities in archaeological reports"},"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>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Anti-Rackets Branch (ARB) has charged one individual following an extensive investigation into suspected irregularities in archaeological reports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, members of the OPP ARB initiated an investigation after receiving information of suspected fraud related to archeological surveys submitted to the Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, on Monday, November 24, 2025, T. Keith POWERS, 60 years of age of Aurora, was charged with the following offences under the <em>Criminal Code:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fraud over $5,000<\/li>\n<li>Unsafe storage of a firearm<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized possession of a firearm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket on Thursday, December 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information that could assist with the investigation is asked to call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or ontariocrimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Anti-Rackets Branch (ARB) has charged one individual following an extensive investigation into suspected irregularities in archaeological reports. &nbsp; In February 2024, members of the OPP ARB initiated an investigation after receiving information of suspected fraud related to archeological surveys submitted to the Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism. As a result &#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-79022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 22:06:32","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\/79022","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=79022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79024,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79022\/revisions\/79024"}],"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=79022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}