Ontario Provincial Police Block

Judge dismisses dangerous driving charge against Grey County OPP officer (Newmarket) - A charge of dangerous driving against a Grey County OPP officer has been dismissed by a judge in a Newmarket court. Constable James Hunter was charged after the province's Special Investigations Unit looked into ...

OPP officer charged with second criminal offence in three months remains on the payroll A Kanata OPP officer previously charged with luring a child has now been charged with an off-duty weapons offence but remains on the payroll of the provincial police. Const. Michael Janho, 31, was charged with l...

Man suspended from active duty after being charged with child luring An OPP officer already in the spotlight for child luring charges faces fresh scrutiny for allegedly possessing a restricted firearm. Const. Michael Janho, 31, was arrested at his Kanata OPP detachment on June 19 and suspended from...

A Red Lake OPP officer is in some hot water. The Ontario Provincial Police say they were conducting a RIDE Check stop on the weekend. They pulled over a vehicle and discovered the driver had been drinking. Constable Caitlyn Van Straalen, a 6-year member of the police force and the daughter of OPP su...

An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer in Lambton County faces a criminal assault charge. According to the OPP Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) the charge stems from an incident during an on-duty arrest within the Lambton OPP service area on New Year’s Eve 2013. As a result of the PSB investi...

THUNDER BAY -- An OPP officer in the city has been charged by the service's Professional Standards Bureau. Det.-Const. Rory Thompson was arrested Tuesday and faces eight counts of theft under $5,000 along with a single count of fraud. Sgt. Shelley Garr said the charges stem from incidents between Oc...

Whether a small folding knife was open or closed continued to be the key issue from the beginning to the end of a coroner’s inquest that has explored the shooting death of a mentally challenged man. On the last day of the inquest, Wednesday, the officer insisted that as 59-year-old Douglas Minty cam...

Despicable. Disgusting, dispiriting, deflating: Ontario’s 2014 election campaign has been all of those things, and more. It is coming to a blessed end in two days’ time. But this grinding, joyless farce has given voters no shortage of reasons to refuse to participate. A sampling: Liberal Leader Kath...

Huronia West OPP Const. Kara Darnley’s preliminary hearing continues, beginning June 2. The hearing will take place in Midland June 2-6 and continues in Barrie with the same judge June 16-20. The hearing is to conclude whether or not there is enough evidence to proceed to trial. In July 2012, the Wa...

A trial date has been set for Huronia West OPP Const. Kara Darnley. The trial will be in Barrie next year. Two weeks have been set aside for the trial: June 2-6 and June 16-20. A status hearing has also been scheduled in Barrie court on March 12. In July 2012, the 28-year-old Wasaga Beach resident w...

WASAGA BEACH – Const. Kara Darnley of the Huronia West OPP detachment in Wasaga Beach was arrested and charged Wednesday, July 4. The 27-year-old woman, a member of the OPP for the last five years, was charged with Obstruct Justice, three counts of Criminal Breach of Trust, Theft Under $5,000 and Po...

COLLINGWOOD – A pretrial date has been set for Kara Darnley’s case. The constable with the Huronia West Ontario Provincial Police detachment was charged last July with obstructing justice, theft under $5,000, possession under $5,000, and three counts of criminal breach of trust. The 27-year-old's ca...

The Wasaga Sun continues to follow the court proceedings of Huronia West OPP Const. Kara Darnely and former beachfront developer Dov Levy. Both cases will be back before a Collingwood provincial court judge on April 2. This morning, Darnley’s lawyer requested another three weeks to review a large am...

Police officers shouldn’t engage in political activities, and for good reason. It’s vital to democracy that they remain independent and neutral, like judges and Canada’s military. Unfortunately, that well-understood principle hasn’t stopped unethical election meddling by the association representing...

The Ontario Provincial Police Association, representing uniformed police officers employed by the provincial government, is breaking the law in urging people not to support Tim Hudak and the Conservative Party of Ontario. Section 77 of the Public Service of Ontario Act states that “a public servant ...