Tag: Special Investigations Unit
Crime Report: Watchdog probes driver’s injury; one call, two arrests
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a man was injured during a traffic stop in St. Thomas, police say.
Family of victim in July shooting seeks aid as ‘Miracle Man’ unable to work
Eduardo (Eddie) Belen is known as the Miracle Man at the hospital.
SIU looking at police traffic stop at Saugeen First Nation
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is looking into a Grey Bruce OPP traffic stop at Saugeen First Nation involving an ATV pulling a trailer in which one of the riders suffered serious injuries. The SIU oversees police conduct where there is serious injury, death, the discharge of a firearm at a person or an allegation of […]
Man shot dead by police amid rampage had been arrested five days earlier
A London man shot dead by police amid a violent rampage last week was a father with a troubled past who had been arrested just days before his death. Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), is probing the death of a 35-year-old man, who was fatally shot by a London police officer inside […]
‘I had to save myself’: Woman recounts brush with death, frustration with police
M.J. Macera was looking for her bathing suit Tuesday when she found a bullet casing and an unfired round in her spare bedroom.
SIU investigating injury to fleeing suspect: London police
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating an injury suffered by a woman as she ran away from officers trying to arrest her, London police say.
‘I didn’t even know he was shot’: Wife of man shot by gunman describes terror
A man was renovating a southeast London home when a carjacking suspect, later killed by police gunfire, shot him in the head, says the injured man’s wife. The 53-year-old man remained in critical condition in hospital Monday, three days after the terrifying crime spree that London police say ended when an officer fatally shot the […]
Watchdog details violent rollover that badly hurt driver, clears OPP officer
An OPP officer was cleared of wrongdoing after a driver who was briefly pursued for speeding crashed and rolled a luxury vehicle several times while exiting Hwy. 401 near Ingersoll.
London police dog bit ear off fleeing suspect: SIU
The province’s police watchdog has determined there was no wrongdoing by officers after a London police dog bit the ear off a fleeing suspect.
Standoff aftermath: London cop cleared in arrest injury of homicide suspect
A suspect in a fatal stabbing at a London apartment kept asking for beer and cigarettes after shooting two tactical officers during a standoff, according to a report by Ontario’s police watchdog released Tuesday.