Ontario Provincial Police Block

POWASSAN – Policing is now the largest single line item in Powassan’s budget. During the Jan. 6 council, Powassan Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) representatives presented to council on a proposed billing model. If passed, the new method would see a 14.6 per cent increase to the municipality’s estim...

THUNDER BAY -- A local OPP officer has pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud under $5,000. Det.-Const. Rory Thompson was arrested in May 2014 and charged with eight counts of theft under $5,000 along with a single count of fraud. On Monday at the Thunder Bay Courthouse, Thompson entered a guilty plea ...

Re: Good Samaritan brutally beaten by OPP officer, Dec. 30 I was appalled to read about OPP Sgt. Russell Watson’s life-shattering assault on Tonie Farrell, and even more appalled to hear that he will face no consequences. This is another in a long line of incidents proving that our police are a law...

Prison sentence for retired cop over crash that left woman badly hurt A retired OPP officer admitted in court Friday to drinking before getting behind the wheel of his vehicle, and then causing a crash that left a Cambridge woman seriously hurt. Paul Thompson, 69, was found guilty of causing bodily...

Retired OPP officer jailed for Cambridge car crash after drinking KITCHENER — A retired police officer went to jail Friday for almost killing a woman in a head-on crash after he had been drinking. Paul Thompson, 69, received a four-month sentence despite suggestions the March 2013 crash in a rural ...

It was the most bittersweet Christmas gift she ever received. But for Maria "Tonie" Farrell, an innocent witness who was beaten by a police officer, it brought a smile to her face. Her son, R.J. Farrell, bought his mom a gavel with the words "not guilty" engraved on it after the ...

ORILLIA - An innocent woman who suffered catastrophic injuries in a beating that a judge determined came at the hands of a police officer is waiting impatiently to hear the outcome of an investigation into her case. Maria “Tonie” Farrell, a 48-year-old grandmother and former Tim Horton’s cashier, wa...

An ex-police Sergent tells how and why you should fight ALL speeding fines “‘Indiscriminate revenue gathering’ It is absolutely disgusting. The government and the Police Force need to hang their heads in shame.” My name is Stan. I am a retired Sergeant of the Police force for 14 years. I was also a...

She was helping a mugging victim - and an Ontario cop beat her up for it Tonie Farrell is a grandmother, and the sort of person who posts messages on her Facebook page that say, "be an encourager. The world has enough critics already." So why was she beaten and permanently maimed by an On...

Ex-SIU chief says probe into cop beating of Good Samaritan should be reopened The former director of Ontario’s police watchdog said the Special Investigations Unit should reopen a case he closed into an OPP officer who left an Orillia woman with a busted knee given new information from a recent cou...

Ombudsman questions SIU’s secrecy over cop implicated in Good Samaritan’s beating Police watchdog failed to charge OPP Sgt. Russell Watson last year after an altercation that left a woman with a busted knee and missing tooth Ontario Ombudsman André Marin is demanding to know why the province’s poli...

Judge's Scathing Ruling Acquits Woman Of Assaulting Officer, Blames Cop A Canadian judge has exonerated an Ontario woman charged with assaulting a police officer and said in his ruling earlier this month that it was the officer who was overly aggressive, leaving the woman crippled after an April 20...

In a scathing ruling, a judge throws out charges against Orillia’s Tonie Farrell, who went to the aid of a screaming woman and ended up severely injured. It was just after 2 a.m. on April 2, 2013, when Tonie Farrell, on her way to a convenience store, heard a woman’s screams. “I knew somebody was i...

No injuries reported, but two vehicles sustained heavy damage Ontario Provincial Police in Armstrong are investigating a collision involving a police cruiser and another passenger vehicle. The crash happened on Christmas Day on Highway 527, about 20 km south of Armstrong. Sgt. Greg Given of the OPP...

An OPP cruiser was involved in a Christmas Day collision on Hwy. 527. The two-vehicle crash closed the highway for several hours in both directions near Waiweg Lake, 20 kilometres South of Armstrong. No injuries were reported. http://www.tbnewswatch.com/News/366212/OPP_cruiser_involved_in_Christmas_...