London police will receive $150,000 from the Ontario government to support victims of crime and improve the reporting of hate-motivated incidents, local MPP Rob Flack has announced. The funding, part of a broader provincial plan, will be also be used to establish a “dedicated hate-incident reporting platform,” according to a statement from Flack, MPP for […]
SARNIA – Kyle Herron’s own lawyer offered him a caution before he was led out of a Sarnia courtroom to serve a three-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. “If he falls back into this conduct next time around, it’ll be probably double the three years,” Robert McFadden said. Herron, 26, was arrested about a year […]
The plan to bring the technology to LHSC emergency rooms was expedited following a December shooting outside Victoria Hospital,
A Sarnia man has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for two counts of fentanyl trafficking, including one linked to a $53,000 drug bust in 2022 Sarnia police said uncovered a record amount of pure fentanyl. Derrick Peachey pleaded guilty in January to the charges linked to a pair of drug busts just three months […]
A St. Thomas resident faces charges after a vehicle collided with a school bus in rural Elgin County on Tuesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police say.
A London resident and their dog escaped an early morning fire on Monday, officials with the London Fire Department say. In a statement on social media, they say that crews arrived at a “fully involved structure fire” on Hubrey Road – which runs north-south near London’s southeastern edge, close to the Wilton Grove Road-Highbury Avenue […]
A London man faces drug and weapons charges after officers seized more than $100,000 in drugs and gear, city police said Wednesday. Officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in the 400 block of Thompson Road in the city’s east end Friday arrested a suspect without incident and searched a home, police […]
Three people face multiple drug-related charges after searches at two residences in London and one in St. Thomas yielded $100,000 worth of suspected narcotics, including crack cocaine and fentanyl, police said. A series of searches that began Tuesday at 5 a.m. uncovered unspecified quantities of suspected drugs including cocaine, psilocybin, oxycodone, fentanyl, crack cocaine and […]
Judges keep good records, Justice Robert Gee noted as he sent a fentanyl dealer to prison again.
Taymoor Pasha’s massive fentanyl stash – the largest fentanyl seizure in London history – has given the local courts a chance to draw a line in the sand in the ongoing war against opioids. “Put large-scale traffickers on notice to say traffic if you dare and risk decades of your life,” federal drug prosecutor Vince […]
While Debb Beer’s family poured out their hearts, Joshua Biernacki put his hands over his face and sobbed. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of Debb or talk about Debb, especially with (Beer’s daughter). We often find ourselves watching old videos and looking at pictures,” Beer’s mother Cindy said in her victim […]