Tag: crime
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index two-thirds higher in 2023
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city’s crime severity index was 123.41 in […]
Coast guard finds unconscious person in water near Goderich pier
GODERICH – One individual is in the hospital after being found unconscious in the water near the Goderich pier. Huron County OPP said police received a report about an unconscious person in the water at around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, with officers responding alongside paramedics, the Goderich fire department and the Canadian Coast Guard. The individual […]
Sawed-off shotgun, ammunition, suspected fentanyl seized
Two London men face charges after police seized a sawed-off shotgun, 175 rounds of ammunition and suspected fentanyl valued at almost $29,000. Officers searched a home in the area of Simcoe and Colborne streets on July 24 as part of an ongoing weapons investigation, London police said Tuesday. Officers found nearly 300 grams of fentanyl […]
Boater rescued off Kincardine coast Sunday
South Bruce OPP and a Good Samaritan helped bring a boat to shore Sunday after it began taking on water. Police were called to Kincardine harbour about 12:50 p.m. for a vessel that had struck a rock just off the coast of Kincardine on Lake Huron, a police news release said. The vessel was reported […]
Suspect charged again with accessory after fact in Meaford murder
Police have re-laid a charge of accessory after the fact to murder against a suspect in the death of Emerson Sprung four years ago. Grey Bruce OPP announced in a news release Friday that Laurel Campbell, 32, of Meaford is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder. She was held for bail […]
Homicide probe launched as London man injured in assault dies
London police have launched a homicide investigation after a man found critically injured outside an apartment building last week died.
Deliberate sinking on Lake Ontario nets conviction | Great Lakes Echo
By Eric Freedman A Rochester, N.Y., man who deliberately abandoned and sunk his 25-foot Bayliner in Lake Ontario must pay $15,442 restitution to cover the cost of unnecessary search-and-rescue operations. Vyacheslav Migitskiy admitted lying to federal investigators about his ownership of the boat, according to court documents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Migitskiy “intentionally sunk […]
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London man swept up in gun crackdown facing human trafficking charges
A London man whose arrest last year led police to launch a massive crackdown on gun crime and weapons smuggling faces new human trafficking charges. A woman working in the sex trade made an agreement with a man related to payment and lodging in April 2019, but the man withheld money from her and assaulted […]
Pierre Poilievre targets safe supply program in testy London news conference
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre brought his “wacko”-laced law and order show to London on Thursday
Search warrant yields suspected stolen property
HURON – Two suspected have been charged after allegedly stolen property with a value exceeding $9,300 was recovered by police. According to Huron OPP, a search warrant was executed Wednesday, July 24, at a rural residential property on Belfast Road in Ashfield-Colborne Wawanosh. As a result of the investigation, police reportedly recovered stolen property, including […]