{"id":82419,"date":"2026-04-04T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=82419"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:59:54","slug":"east-algoma-opp-wanted-individual-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/east-algoma-opp-wanted-individual-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Wanted individual arrested"},"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-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>An OPP social media post regarding a wanted individual helped members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) locate and arrest the person on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3:50 p.m., officers from the East Algoma Detachment, along with the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), responded to a report of a sighting of a wanted person travelling in a white SUV on Highway 17 in the Bruce Mines area.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4:00 p.m., police located the SUV on Highway 17 near River Street in Thessalon. A query confirmed the person was wanted on an East Algoma OPP warrant, and the individual was arrested without incident. A search of the person resulted in the seizure of a small quantity of suspected cocaine. The individual was then transported to the Thessalon detachment for further processing.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald BARON, 50 years old, from Thessalon was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession of a Schedule I Substance &#8211; Cocaine (two counts)<\/li>\n<li>Fail to Comply with Probation Order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice Video Bail in Blind River on<\/p>\n<p>April 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP would like to thank the public for their assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An OPP social media post regarding a wanted individual helped members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) locate and arrest the person on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. At approximately 3:50 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 14:23:11","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\/82419","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=82419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82420,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82419\/revisions\/82420"}],"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=82419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}