Tag: Lambton OPP
Man with ties to 2022 Hwy. 402 blockade jailed for police assault
SARNIA – A Lambton County man convicted of mischief around the time a stretch of Highway 402 was shuttered during the 2022 so-called Freedom Convoy has been jailed for a series of new crimes including assaulting and obstructing a police officer. Steve Verberne, 48, from Watford, recently pleaded guilty to those two charges along with […]
OPP probing infant’s death in community near Sarnia
The death of an infant in a community near Sarnia is being investigated by the OPP. Lambton EMS and other emergency services responded to a report of an unresponsive infant at a home on St. Clair Street in Point Edward on Saturday at about 1:25 a.m., Lambton OPP said Monday. Point Edward is a village […]
Two men charged after gunfire during fight: Ontario Provincial Police
Two men from Walpole Island First Nation are facing charges after Ontario Provincial Police say officers responded to reports of gunfire during a fight on Thursday afternoon.
Woman gets six years in prison for kidnapping in grisly slaying
A woman initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Windsor man who was shot, dismembered and burned on Walpole Island in 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to six years behind bars for kidnapping.
He sparked a police chase, got stuck in a field and now he’s going to jail
A young Sarnia man charged three years ago with a failed getaway from police after the car he was driving got stuck in a field near Petrolia finally has been sentenced. Dreyten Lawrence, then 20, was charged with flight from police, dangerous driving, stunt driving by racing and driving without a licence following an incident on […]