{"id":87210,"date":"2026-10-14T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87210"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:55:12","slug":"marathon-opp-drug-trafficking-investigation-leads-to-arrest-and-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/marathon-opp-drug-trafficking-investigation-leads-to-arrest-and-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon OPP &#8211; Drug Trafficking Investigation Leads to arrest and charges"},"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-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Officers from the Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have concluded a drug trafficking investigation that led to the arrest of a local resident.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, shortly before 10:00 a.m., members of the Marathon OPP Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) executed a search warrant at a local residence, with assistance from Anishinabek Police Service (APS), OPP Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit (PAFU) and members of the OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB).<\/p>\n<p>Investigators seized a quantity of suspected cocaine, methamphetamine, and evidence of trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, Joshua BEDARD, 41 years old of Marathon was arrested and charged with the following <em>Controlled Drugs and Substances Act<\/em> offences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking &#8211; cocaine<\/li>\n<li>Possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking &#8211; methamphetamine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Marathon at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information about the trafficking of illicit drugs, call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at ontariocrimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the Marathon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have concluded a drug trafficking investigation that led to the arrest of a local resident. On Wednesday, October 7, 2026, shortly before 10:00 a.m., members of the Marathon OPP Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) executed a search warrant at a local residence, with assistance &#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-87210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-21 11:01:15","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\/87210","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=87210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87211,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87210\/revisions\/87211"}],"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=87210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}