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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says there are no grounds to charge an Orillia OPP officer with a criminal offence in relation to injuries sustained by a local woman. In a statement Tuesday, the arm’s-length agency affirmed an earlier decision regarding injuries sustained by Maria Farrell duri...

No charges laid against OPP officer for 2013 altercation with Orillia woman Ontario’s police watchdog has decided for a second time not to lay charges against an OPP officer who left an Orillia woman with what a judge described as “catastrophic” injuries. Tonie Farrell, 49, suffered a shattered kne...

First Nations woman pursues private prosecution against OPP officers who injured her Bonnie Muckuck stands about five feet and weighs less than a 100 pounds. But the little First Nations woman from the Pickle Lake community in northern Ontario is standing up against police she alleges assaulted her...

A long-time Ontario Provincial Police officer could be facing disciplinary action by his employer for publicly criticizing its decision to relocate Sudbury's OPP search-and-rescue helicopter to Orillia. An internal complaint against Orillia-based OPP helicopter pilot, Sgt. Dan Mulligan, was investig...

SIU investigating after OPP cruiser and motorcycle collide near Shelburne The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is examining the evidence surrounding a crash involving an OPP cruiser and motorcycle just south of Shelburne. SIU spokesperson Monica Hudon has confirmed the civilian agency has invoked ...

QUINTE WEST – A Quinte West on-duty OPP officer was charged following a two vehicle collision in Trenton on Friday afternoon. Around 3:20 p.m.,police, fire and EMS responded to the collision involving a police vehicle and a civilian vehicle at the intersection of Dundas St. West and Dufferin Ave. – ...

A Quinte West OPP officer has been charged with failing to stop at a red light. The charge was laid following a police investigation of a two-vehicle collision involving a civilian vehicle and police car Friday afternoon. Members of the Quinte West OPP, Fire Department and Hastings-Prince Edward EMS...

A former provincial police officer appeared in an Ontario courthouse Friday, in a case of alleged sexual assault that has shocked the small town of Listowel, Ont. Police arrested John Stone, 53, on Wednesday. He faces a dozen charges, including sexual assault on a person under 16, sexual interferenc...

Former OPP officer accused of luring, sexually assaulting youth A man who once served as a sworn member of the Ontario Provincial Police appeared in a Stratford court Friday on sexual assault and child luring charges. John Stone was arrested Wednesday on a lengthy list of charges including sexual a...

Police lay charges after protest targets officers in northern Ontario First Nation Three police vehicles destroyed, officers barricaded in detachment in June 27 protest in Pikangikum Provincial police have arrested and charged eight people from Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario, after...

A former Sault Ste. Marie Police Service officer facing sexual assault charges involving four male victims is scheduled to appear in court in August. His first appearance in court was scheduled for Monday but was adjourned to Aug. 10 to allow more time for the disclosure process. Const. David Scott,...

Francis Thatcher considers private criminal prosecution of OPP officer who injured his client A Thunder Bay, Ont., lawyer says he wants to take an Ontario Provincial Police officer to court for breaking the shoulder of a First Nations woman during her arrest. Francis Thatcher is looking into the po...

Provincial police officers remained posted to Pikangikum First Nation Monday, two days after a hair-raising protest by about 200 disgruntled locals caused provincial and First Nation officers to hunker down in the top floor of the reserve’s police station. OPP spokesman Sgt. Peter Leon said that alt...

THUNDER BAY – A Northern Ontario community reacted to an incident that is making the rounds on social media. A community member in Pikangikum was tasered by OPP during an arrest on Saturday that led to a small protest that escalated into a larger dispute that left the OPP barricading themselves insi...

Pikangikum riot destroyed 3 police vehicles, trashed first floor of police detachment: OPP PIKANGIKUM First Nation, Ont.—The Ontario Provincial Police is investigating a riot that left the first floor of the Pikangikum First Nation police detachment trashed and destroyed three police vehicles on Sa...