Tag: crime
New state funding not enough to solve shortage of prosecutors, counties say | Bridge Michigan
Michigan is suffering from a nationwide public prosecutor shortage due to underfunded positions. But this October, a $17 million appropriation in the stateâs 2024-25 budget will fund grants to try to address the shortage in counties with high rates of violent crime….
Prosecutor shortage insufficiently addressed by state funding, counties say | Bridge Michigan
Michigan is suffering from a nationwide public prosecutor shortage due to underfunded positions. But this October, a $17 million appropriation in the stateâs 2024-25 budget will fund grants to try to address the shortage in counties with high rates of violent crime….
Police make arrest in latest London threat involving fake guns
A 39-year-old London woman is charged after police say a fake gun was pointed at people downtown â the second such incident in the city’s core this week
Rahman homicide investigation ‘complex’ and active, police say
Police say their homicide investigation into Sharif Rahman’s death continues and they ask for the public’s help to solve the case. Rahman, 44, died a week after an Aug. 17, 2023 assault outside his downtown restaurant, The Curry House. Police have identified three suspects but there have been no arrests. “The investigation into the death […]
Court records shed light on charges in $3M auto theft bust
Two men charged following a six-month auto-theft investigation are accused of stealing vehicles from a Southwestern Ontario classic car dealer and threatening the owner, according to court documents. The OPP launched a probe in late 2023 after a Lambton County resident reported multiple vehicles stolen, leading investigators to search a property in Stirling, a community […]
Pair charged in London gun and drug bust
Two London residents face charges after police seized a gun and nearly $20,000 worth of drugs, provincial police say. Huron County OPP launched a drug investigation in March that led investigators to identify two suspects in London, the OPP said Thursday. OPP officers and London police tactical officers searched a home on Tuesday, seizing a […]
Female pharmacy worker confined as display case cleared out: Police
London police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects in a brazen robbery at a business in the city’s southwest end. According to police, on Monday at around 5:45 p.m. two men entered a pharmacy in the 500-block of Commissioners Road West, which is near Wonderland Road. They approached a female employee […]
Chatham-Kent officer charged with assault, uttering threats
A Chatham-Kent police officer is charged with assault and uttering threats in an on-duty incident last month. Const. Fraser Curtis, who has been with the service for 14 years, is charged in an incident that occurred on June 26 in Chatham when he was on duty, Chatham-Kent police said Wednesday. Chatham-Kent police said it requested […]
Friends rally to light up porches as search for missing mom continues
Friends on Tuesday urged residents across several Southwestern Ontario counties to leave their porch lights on overnight in support of the search for a 44-year-old mom who was last seen leaving work in Woodstock five days ago. Jenny Da Silva, a funeral director, left work in Woodstock at about 3 p.m. on July 5, last […]
London woman charged after replica gun pointed at drivers downtown
A 52-year-old London woman is charged after police say drivers reported having a gun pointed at them while travelling near downtown. London police say they were contacted at about 7 p.m. on Monday and told a woman was pointing a handgun near Wellington and Horton streets, just south of the core. One person was arrested […]