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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The arrest of a man sought in a London break-in nearly a year ago led to the seizure of drugs valued at nearly $130,000 and the recovery of high-end purses, watches and jewelry, London police say. An OPP unit that tracks down people who have violated their parole notified London police on Monday they had […]
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These are examples of cases that have become way too common in the local courts. A 31-year-old man was acquitted Wednesday in a London courtroom after a trial on a charge of pointing a handgun at another man during an argument along the Richmond Row bar strip, largely because the evidence from witnesses at the […]