Category: Police
Hanover police say man spat in officer’s face during arrest
Police decided not to release his name to avoid identifying the former partner and children, Hanover Chief Chris Knoll said.
Hanover police catch suspect with help of public, firefighters, OPP
The same suspect had been released from custody on May 16 on charges for other crimes laid by Owen Sound Police Service.
Hanover police lay drug charges after reports about suspicious vehicle
Hanover Police Service investigated reports about a suspicious parked vehicle Saturday and then charged a 47-year-old Owen Sound man with drug and other offences. Police investigated a 7:19 p.m. report of a vehicle parked in the 100-block of 12th Avenue in Hanover, a police news release said. The engine was running when police say the […]
West Grey sex offender sentenced to 12 years in prison
A 64-year-old West Grey man was sentenced in a Walkerton courtroom to 12 years in prison for sex offences against three youths. Norman Boyce was convicted in the Superior Court of Justice on three counts of sexual interference and two counts of making sexually explicit material available to a child. Court records show he also […]
Court sentences London woman for stabbing strangers, bear-spraying cop
Justice Clayton Conlan said the offender’s unprovoked attacks were “fueled by some kind of psychotic breakdown, likely due to the abuse of narcotics.”