Tag: Fentanyl
Grey-Bruce’s 25th opioid alert of 2024 issued; another fatality reported
Grey Bruce Public Health has issued an opioid alert for the 25th time in 2024 after, over a recent 24-hour period, there were three suspected drug poisonings, including one fatality. The local health unit issued the alert to its community partners and people who use unregulated substances on Tuesday after receiving notification of the suspected […]
Prison for drug dealer caught with fentanyl in restaurant drive-thru
A Southwestern Ontario drug dealer has been sent to prison for the second time in three years after being caught with fentanyl while at a Simcoe fast-food joint’s drive-thru.
Donald Trump tariff threatens Volkswagen’s $7B St. Thomas plans: Trade expert
Southwestern Ontario may lose a $7-billion investment and the 3,000 jobs that come with it if Canadian industry is hit with a 25 per cent tariff from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, one trade expert says. Volkswagen, now building an electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas, may be forced to reconsider the investment, and relocate […]
Five Londoners charged in crackdown on Hamilton street gang
Five Londoners are among two dozen people charged amid a crackdown on a Hamilton street gang linked to shootings across southern Ontario, police say.
Boyfriend of slain London nurse granted bail on gun, drug charges
The boyfriend of a London nurse who was gunned down in the coupleâs driveway two years ago was granted bail Monday following his latest arrest on gun and drug charges.
Drug dealer sent to prison as judge laments ‘soul-destroying’ fentanyl
A drug dealer with a years-long record of relatively small crimes found that trafficking in fentanyl was a âwhole new ballgame,â according to a judge.
Jailed woman, 63, charged after police find $132K in storage locker
A Sarnia woman in jail facing charges linked to two separate drug busts from earlier this year is now facing an additional charge after Sarnia police found more than $132,000 in cash in a storage locker.
Street crimes unit nabs traffickers with over $20,000 worth of drugs headed to Saugeen Shores
The Grey Bruce Community Street Crime Unit said they intercepted two Saugeen First Nation residents with over $20,000 worth of drugs on their way to Saugeen Shores. According to a police media release, the OPP and the CSCU became aware that a person of interest in a drug trafficking investigation was travelling on Highway 21 […]
Boyfriend of slain nurse charged in gun, drug bust months after acquittal
The boyfriend of a London nurse gunned down in their driveway three years ago faces more than a dozen gun and drug charges.
Man pleads guilty to possessing 15 kg of fentanyl seized in $3.2M drug bust
The judge seemed to want to make sure he had heard correctly just how much fentanyl the federal drug prosecutor said was found at a London address.