{"id":86435,"date":"2026-09-04T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=86435"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:06:33","slug":"east-algoma-opp-charges-laid-after-sexual-assault-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/east-algoma-opp-charges-laid-after-sexual-assault-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Charges laid after sexual assault reported"},"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 August 31, 2026, police arrested a person in Elliot Lake after a reported sexual assault at a retail store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On August 26, 2026, the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a sexual assault call.\u00a0The complainant reported that their young child was at a Hillside Drive South retail store a few days prior when an employee interacted with the child inappropriately.\u00a0After a thorough investigation, police arrested and charged the employee.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Christopher VANDIEPEN, 50-years-old, from Elliot Lake, was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sexual Assault on a person under 16 years of age<\/li>\n<li>Sexual Interference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice Bail Court in Blind River on September 1, 2026, but was later released.<\/p>\n<p>Because the accused was a retail store employee and had numerous interactions with the public, police are requesting anyone who may have additional information or believes that they were a victim of similar circumstance to contact East Algoma OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or submit information online at: www.sudburycrimestoppers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 31, 2026, police arrested a person in Elliot Lake after a reported sexual assault at a retail store. \u00a0 On August 26, 2026, the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a sexual assault call.\u00a0The complainant reported that their young child was at a Hillside Drive South retail store a few days prior &#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-86435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-11 10:26:58","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\/86435","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=86435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86436,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86435\/revisions\/86436"}],"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=86435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}