GUELPH – The provincial coroner has investigated and cleared itself of any wrongdoing in the seizure of a Guelph Today reporter’s personal property in December.
Police
Teen charged with assault
FERGUS – Police have charged a local teenager in connection with an attack with a weapon that sent a victim to the hospital.
Prohibited driver charged
NORTH HURON – On April 4 just after 12pm, Huron County OPP officers conducted a traffic stop for a suspected prohibited driver on Amberley Road, just outside of Wingham.
Partial lockdowns at Fergus schools on April 29
FERGUS – Centre Wellington District High School and JD Hogarth Public School were placed under a "hold and secure" protocol for part of the day on Monday.
Teen hit by car then charged
GUELPH – A teenage girl got hit by a car and handed a ticket last week.
Fergus man sentenced to prison following online child exploitation stings
TORONTO – Fergus resident Wilfred Thyssen, 67, was sentenced in Toronto Court by Justice Jonathan Bliss this month to a term of more than five years in prison for arranging to have sex with children and breaching a bail condition.
Police: woman approached girls, offered them bikes
GUELPH – Police here are investigating after three young girls were approached last Wednesday evening by a woman who offered them bicycles.
Trespassing ATV riders assault, threaten couple
ERIN – Police are looking for help to identify two people who assaulted and threatened a couple on a local trail earlier this month.
Man charged after hit, run
GUELPH – A Puslinch male faces dangerous driving and other charges after fleeing a collision last Friday.
Police beat: Four charged in area drug bust
CALEDON – Four people from Brampton, Mono, Caledon and Mississauga have been charged in a drug bust following a two-month investigation involving several OPP detachments, including Wellington County.
Mount Forest teen, Alma woman dead after serious three-vehicle crash
MAPLETON – Two people are dead following a serious three-vehicle crash here on Sunday evening. Emergency crews were called to the intersection of 12th Line and Sideroad 16 in Mapleton at about 7:30pm on April 14.
Police looking to identify source of calls for help in Harriston
HARRISTON – There was a large contingent of first responders here on Sunday afternoon searching for the source of what sounded like distressed calls for help from an unidentified woman.
OPP: five large trucks worth over $1 million stolen from yard near 401
PUSLINCH – Police are investigating the theft of five "semi-tractors" worth over $1 million from a trucking yard here about a month ago. Wellington County OPP officials say the trucks were stolen from a property "near Highway 401" on March 14 at about 9pm.
Oakville man charged in fatal Mapleton crash last fall
MAPLETON – An Oakville man has been charged with dangerous and careless driving in connection with a crash last fall that left one person dead.
Police lay more ‘intimate partner violence’ charges
WELLINGTON COUNTY – Local police laid 18 charges in nine incidents across the county involving “intimate partner violence” last month.