OPP Beat

UPDATE (Wawa, ON.

FATAL COLLISION (Latchford, Ontario) Members of the Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are presently investigating a fatal motor vehicle collision involving two transport trucks that occurred at approximately 5:39 a.m.

HIGHWAY 17 CLOSURE NORTH OF WAWA (WAWA, ON) – Further to our previous media release regarding closure of Highway 17 south to Batchewana/Sault Ste Marie area. (Both directions).

Laird Twp Residential Break and Enter (Laird Twp. ON) – Between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00p.m. a residence on the 700 block of Finn’s Bay road in Laird Twp was entered. Stolen was a 52 inch Samsung LCD TV.

MALE CHARGED AFTER FIGHT (Blind River, ON.) - On April 1, 2010 at 4:30 a.m. officers from the East Algoma OPP were called to an apartment on West St in Blind River where a male had possibly been stabbed.

BE A RESPONSIBLE DRIVER THIS EASTER HOLIDAY WEEKEND (East Algoma Detachment) – The Officers of the Ontario Provincial Police continue to take an active role across the Province in reminding motorists to be cautious and responsible about their driving

DRIVER CHARGED IN MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION (Havilland Twp., ON) – OPP along with the Goulais River First Response responded to a single motor vehicle rollover on Highway 17 North near the Havilland causeway at 2:30 am this morning.

THEFT OF GAS RESULTS IN CHARGES (Blind River, ON.) –On Saturday March 29, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. East Algoma OPP were advised that a black Honda Civic with two males and a female had left the Shell gas station without paying for $44.00 of gas.

ADDITIONAL BUILDING DAMAGED IN YESTERDAY’S FIRE (Aweres Twp., ON) – A fire to a mobile home at Beaumont Trailer Park in Aweres Township on Wednesday 24 March that had flared up again yesterday morning caused further damage.

STOLEN VEHICLES RECOVERED; CHARGES LAID (WAWA, On) – On March 22, 2010 at 3:55 pm Wawa MNR in Lake Superior Provincial Park reported a suspicious vehicle, a 1995 Plymouth Voyageur green bearing Michigan licence plates, in the ditch on Highway 17, Bri