Tag: Sarnia courts
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 […]
‘It impacted a lot of people’: Man convicted of another indecent act
A Sarnia man has been convicted of committing another indecent act in the city, this time at the Lambton Shared Services Centre.
Southwestern Ontario criminal fails in bid to shake off dangerous offender tag
A Sarnia man’s appeal of his seven-year prison sentence and dangerous offender designation has been rejected by three judges in Ontario’s Appeal Court. Ronald Craig Hope, then 57, was arrested in May 2018 shortly after Sarnia police said he was wanted on charges including uttering threats to cause bodily harm and criminal harassment. He was […]
Shock, anger over inmate’s death: ‘No one deserves to die like that’
Those close to an inmate who died in the Sarnia Jail are expressing shock, anger, and are calling for accountability over his sudden death.
Man who threatened to kill Nathaniel Veltman charged in Sarnia Jail death
A man who made a couple of bizarre court appearances in London after he was charged with threatening to kill Nathaniel Veltman is accused of killing a fellow inmate at the Sarnia Jail. Devin Fentie, 33, of Sarnia is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Douglas Cutbush, Sarnia police said Wednesday. Cutbush, 51, […]