{"id":83399,"date":"2026-07-06T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=83399"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:01:34","slug":"east-algoma-opp-arrest-after-calls-made-about-person-with-a-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/east-algoma-opp-arrest-after-calls-made-about-person-with-a-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Arrest after calls made about person with a knife"},"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>Police arrest person after receiving a call regarding a man with a knife on Taylor Boulevard.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 2, 2026, at approximately 4:00 p.m. the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was called in relation to an older intoxicated male who had just threatened another male with a knife after a verbal argument.\u00a0The older male departed the area on foot prior to police arrival but was arrested a short time later at his residence.\u00a0There were no injuries sustained by anyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Thomas STEELE, 69-years-old, of Elliot Lake, was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assault with a weapon<\/li>\n<li>Possession of weapon for dangerous purpose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused was scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice Bail Court in Blind River on July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest person after receiving a call regarding a man with a knife on Taylor Boulevard.\u00a0 On July 2, 2026, at approximately 4:00 p.m. the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was called in relation to an older intoxicated male who had just threatened another male with a knife after a verbal argument.\u00a0The older male &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 08:39:18","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\/83399","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=83399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84413,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83399\/revisions\/84413"}],"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=83399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}