Tag: Trafficking
Going to a London ER? You will be scanned for weapons
The plan to bring the technology to LHSC emergency rooms was expedited following a December shooting outside Victoria Hospital,
Man gets nearly 9 years for record Sarnia fentanyl bust
A Sarnia man has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for two counts of fentanyl trafficking, including one linked to a $53,000 drug bust in 2022 Sarnia police said uncovered a record amount of pure fentanyl. Derrick Peachey pleaded guilty in January to the charges linked to a pair of drug busts just three months […]
‘Coercive, manipulative’ human trafficker handed 15½ year sentence
Jordan Hawke’s large-scale human trafficking scheme called out for a large-scale sentence to send a message “in the loudest possible way.” “His actions were exploitative, coercive, manipulative, threatening and sometimes dividing, completely self-serving and prolonged,” said Superior Court Justice Michael Carnegie in his decision Friday to sentence Hawke, 33, to 15½ years in prison. “The […]
Driver, 24, charged after school bus collision
A St. Thomas resident faces charges after a vehicle collided with a school bus in rural Elgin County on Tuesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police say.
Resident, dog escape $150K overnight blaze: London Fire Department
A London resident and their dog escaped an early morning fire on Monday, officials with the London Fire Department say. In a statement on social media, they say that crews arrived at a “fully involved structure fire” on Hubrey Road – which runs north-south near London’s southeastern edge, close to the Wilton Grove Road-Highbury Avenue […]