A six-year-old boy was rescued from Lake Huron after drifting away from shore on what Ontario Provincial Police described as an “inflatable ring.” The child, who police said was wearing a “personal floatation device,” drifted from shore near Black’s Point Beach, south of Goderich, on Monday just after noon, police said. The boy was located […]
London police are asking the public for help after a sex-trade worker alleges she was sexually assaulted by a man armed with a handgun. A man in a vehicle approached a sex worker some time between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. Saturday in the 100-block of Rectory Street, north of Hamilton Road, where the woman […]
St. Thomas police are urging caution after they say three people lost $30,000 or more each in cryptocurrency fraud incidents that were reported to them within less than a week.
St. Thomas police are asking for the public's help to identify a suspect in what they termed a "porch pirate" theft from a home.
A 22-year-old from the Toronto area was killed in a vehicle crash north of Innerkip in Oxford County on Monday afternoon, police say. Oxford County OPP said they, along with firefighters and paramedics, were called to a collision between a sedan and a commercial motor vehicle at the intersection of Oxford County Road 8 and […]
A London man is accused of fraudulently obtaining hundreds of accounts on the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. website, court documents show. OLG officials alerted the OPP’s investigation and enforcement bureau, a unit embedded in the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the province’s gambling regulator, on Sept. 30 to suspected illegal activity on the […]
A Huron-Kinloss resident is out $215,000 after falling victim to a cryptocurrency scam. According to South Bruce OPP, the victim received a bill from a utility company that was higher than their anticipated amount. When the victim spoke to someone that they believed was a company representative, they were told the issue was a processing […]
A 31-year-old from Toronto is charged after three people wearing masks entered a St. Thomas high school and threatened a student in a washroom, St. Thomas police say. Three unknown individuals wearing masks entered the school with a student on Jan. 22, police said. Once inside, the trio located a student known to them and […]
Personalized cryptocurrencies are an explicit cash grab, flawed in both concept and duty of care.
Area residents have lost nearly $200,000 through cryptocurrency investment frauds in recent months, police say. South Bruce OPP issued a warning on Dec. 7 saying they have received several reports of residents being scammed with total losses amounting to over $190,000. According to the news release, the majority of investment scam reports involve residents deciding […]
Area residents have lost nearly $200,000 through cryptocurrency investment frauds in recent months, police say. South Bruce OPP issued a warning on Dec. 7 saying they have received several reports of residents being scammed with total losses amounting to over $190,000. According to the news release, the majority of investment scam reports involve residents deciding […]
A Southwestern Ontario resident lost $320,000 in cash and gold in an online scam, provincial police say.