{"id":82750,"date":"2026-04-21T08:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=82750"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:33:39","slug":"east-algoma-opp-speeding-vehicle-was-stolen-arrests-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/east-algoma-opp-speeding-vehicle-was-stolen-arrests-made\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Speeding Vehicle was stolen, arrests made"},"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 Saturday April 18, 2026, at approximately 4:00 p.m., officers from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were on patrol duties on Highway 17 in Plummer Additional Township when police observed a westbound orange car travelling at a high rate of speed and initiated a traffic stop near Big Perch Bay Road (east of Bruce Mines).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A query revealed the car was stolen, leading to the arrest of both the driver and passenger. Police searched the vehicle and seized a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, a 9 mm handgun, and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The driver Sahildeep SINGH, 21 years old from Brampton was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession property obtained by crime over $5000 &#8211; in Canada<\/li>\n<li>Transport firearm, weapon, prohibited device or ammunition in a careless manner &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized possession of a weapon<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of unauthorized possession of firearm &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Possession of a prohibited device or ammunition<\/li>\n<li>Occupant of motor vehicle knowing there was a firearm &#8211; three counts<\/li>\n<li>Possession of loaded prohibited restricted firearm &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Possession of prohibited or restricted firearm with ammo &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The passenger Lovedeep SINGH, 26 years old from Delta Region, British Columbia was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession property obtained by crime over $5000 &#8211; in Canada<\/li>\n<li>Transport firearm, weapon, prohibited device or ammunition in a careless manner &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Unauthorized possession of a weapon<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of unauthorized possession of firearm &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Possession of a prohibited device or ammunition<\/li>\n<li>Occupant of motor vehicle knowing there was a firearm &#8211; three counts<\/li>\n<li>Possession of loaded prohibited restricted firearm &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<li>Possession of prohibited or restricted firearm with ammo &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both accused appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice Video Bail in Blind River on April 19, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday April 18, 2026, at approximately 4:00 p.m., officers from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were on patrol duties on Highway 17 in Plummer Additional Township when police observed a westbound orange car travelling at a high rate of speed and initiated a traffic stop near Big Perch Bay &#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-82750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 08:03:02","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\/82750","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=82750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82752,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82750\/revisions\/82752"}],"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=82750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}