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London police assisted provincial police with a “high-risk” traffic stop across from police headquarters on Dundas Street Monday.
The OPP received information from Hamilton police about a disturbance inside a vehicle travelling west on the Highway 401 possibly heading to London, an OPP spokesperson Const. Jeff Hare said.
OPP located the vehicle and a high-risk traffic stop was initiated at Adelaide and Dundas streets, where one person was arrested, Hare said, Nobody was injured.
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“This was an isolated event and there was no threat to public safety,” Hare said in an email, adding more information on the incident will be released Tuesday.
A London police spokesperson confirmed police were assisting the OPP and referred all inquiries to the OPP, as did a Hamilton police spokesperson.
Joe O’Neil, a funeral home operator and amateur photographer, went to the scene after his father alerted him to the heavy police presence.
There were at least nine police vehicles surrounding a blue sedan, said O’Neil, who posted photos of the incident to social media.
“They were there for quite a while,” he said of police.
The blue sedan eventually was loaded onto a flatbed truck, O’Neil said.
Police probe vehicle blaze
London police say they’re treating a Monday morning vehicle fire in the city’s northeast end as an arson.
Police say the blaze started at about 4:30 a.m. in a parking lot in the 600-block of Kipps Lane, east of Adelaide Street. No one was injured, police said.
Three other vehicles in the parking lot were damaged, police said, adding damage is estimated at $24,000.
Anyone with information is asked to call London police at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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