{"id":85755,"date":"2026-08-10T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85755"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:06:15","slug":"east-algoma-opp-employer-charged-following-workplace-assault-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/east-algoma-opp-employer-charged-following-workplace-assault-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Employer Charged following Workplace Assault Investigation"},"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 Friday, August 7, 2026, at approximately 5:30 p.m., members of the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of an employee who had been assaulted by their employer at a food services business within the Municipality of Huron Shores.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation determined that the employee had arrived late for work and a verbal dispute occurred between the business owner and the employee. During the interaction, the employee was struck on the lower back\/waist area by the employer.<\/p>\n<p>Police also learned that a similar incident involving the same parties had reportedly occurred in July 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Huimin Zhang, 44 years old, from the Municipality of Huron Shores was charged with two counts of assault.<\/p>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Elliot Lake on October 14, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 7, 2026, at approximately 5:30 p.m., members of the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of an employee who had been assaulted by their employer at a food services business within the Municipality of Huron Shores. The investigation determined that the employee had arrived late &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":50863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 16:21:23","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\/85755","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=85755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85756,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85755\/revisions\/85756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}