Tag: Oxford OPP
Retirement home closes three days after last resident moves out
Monday marked the official closing of an Oxford County retirement home at the centre of an alleged fraud investigation.
24-year-old killed in crash involving car, flatbed truck
A 24-year-old Oxford County resident was killed Sunday when a car and a flatbed truck collided in Zorra Township. The crash occurred on Oxford County Road 68, formerly called Highway 2, between Lines 29 and 31, east of Thamesford, at about 6 p.m., Oxford OPP said. The driver of the car, a 24-year-old whom police […]
Two suspects sought in probe of vehicle fire in London
London police are asking for the public’s help as they try to identify two suspects at the scene of a vehicle fire early Friday. Before the fire near Commissioners Road and Highland Heights that broke out around 12:40 a.m., video surveillance showed two people in a vehicle pull into a driveway of a residence, leave […]
Police seize $200K in stolen vehicles, parts in Southwestern Ontario raid
A 48-year-old Norfolk County man faces charges Ontario Provincial Police say they seized $200,000 worth of stolen property, including several vehicles. Officers in the OPP Norfolk County detachment’s auto theft ring, working with the Haldimand/Norfolk OPP street crime unit, raided a property on Windham Road 13 just after 7 a.m. on Oct. 25, police say. […]
What we know about retirement home that is suddenly closing
All we know and donât know about the abrupt closing of small Norwich retirement home amid a police fraud investigation.
Intersection closed after transport truck slams into house
Police closed down a stretch of a rural road southeast of London after a big rig slammed into a house Wednesday morning. A transport truck crashed into an abandoned home near Bradley Ave at Westchester Bourne, Ontario Provincial Police said. Nobody was inside the home at the time. It wasnât immediately clear whether the driver […]
Nursing home resident hit with fraud worries, big rent increase: Family
An elderly woman living at a Southwestern Ontario retirement home where police allege a fraud duped several people out of more than $50,000 is facing a new stressor, her family says â an increase that would more than double her rent. Miranda Guitard said her husbandâs 90-year-old grandmother, who has been diagnosed with dementia, became […]
One dead, several in hospital after rural two-vehicle crash
One person is dead after a two-vehicle crash south of the Oxford County town of Thamesford on Saturday evening, police say. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police detachments in Oxford and Middlesex counties, along with firefighters and paramedics, were called to a two-vehicle crash at 17th Line and 19th Line in Zorra Township at about […]
Driver dies in single-vehicle crash near Woodstock: OPP
A driver is dead following a crash Tuesday afternoon north of Woodstock, Ontario Provincial Police say. The single-vehicle crash occurred at about 1:30 p.m. on Highway 59 between Braemar Side Road and Strathallan Road in the Township of East Zorra-Tavistock, Oxford OPP said. The driver, a 75-year-old from Windsor, was alone in the vehicle and […]
More victims come forward, losses mount in retirement home fraud: OPP
A fraud at a Southwestern Ontario retirement home is âbigger than it first appearedâ and has cost victims more than the $50,000 originally estimated, police tell The London Free Press.