{"id":86403,"date":"2026-09-03T08:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86403"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:44:24","slug":"east-algoma-opp-dangerous-driving-and-threat-charges-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/east-algoma-opp-dangerous-driving-and-threat-charges-laid\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Dangerous Driving and Threat Charges Laid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><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><\/strong>On Saturday, August 29, 2026, at approximately 11:15 p.m., members of the East Algoma detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a suspicious person complaint in the area of Provencher Lane and Hudson Street in the Town of Blind River.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation determined the suspicious person was following five youths in a vehicle and attempting to strike them with the car. \u00a0Earlier, the driver became confrontational and threatened to physically harm them.<\/p>\n<p>Police later located the grey car on Lakeside Avenue, conducted a traffic stop, and subsequently arrested the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Edward MARINOFF, 72 years old from Blind River was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dangerous operation<\/li>\n<li>Uttering threat &#8211; cause death or bodily harm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Elliot Lake on November 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, August 29, 2026, at approximately 11:15 p.m., members of the East Algoma detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a suspicious person complaint in the area of Provencher Lane and Hudson Street in the Town of Blind River. Investigation determined the suspicious person was following five youths in a vehicle and &#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-86403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 11:03:26","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\/86403","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=86403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86404,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86403\/revisions\/86404"}],"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=86403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}