4 - Southpoint Sun
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
MWCP HELPS WITH MASKS
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LEAMINGTON — The Migrant Worker Community Program (MWCP) has been hard at work educating and distributing masks to migrant workers for weeks now. They received a sizeable donation of masks from CONQUER COVID-19, a Toronto-based group, who donated 1.2 million masks and PPE to local hospitals and programs. MP for Windsor-Tecumseh, Irek Kazmercyk, made the arrangements for this donation to happen. MWCP has now distributed over 4000 masks to local businesses and individuals. In the top photo, from left, MWCP Chair Martin Varela, Pastor Saul Antonio Hernandez and Deacon John Vezina help to pile cases of masks into a storage container for future use. In the bottom photo, staff members of MWCP hand out masks on Erie street in Leamington. Photos submitted
Arrest leads to drug charges C H AT H A M - K E N T — Around 3:30 a.m. on Monday, August 10, Chatham-Kent Police responded to the report of a suspicious person in the backyard of a residence on Talbot Trail. Officers located a man sleeping inside a small hut on the property.
Through investigation, police learned that the man was currently bound by conditions not to leave his residence. The man was arrested and upon being searched, was found to be in possession of crystal methamphetamine, even though he was also on conditions
not to possess any illicit drugs. The 24-year-old Kingsville man has been charged with two counts of failing to comply with his release conditions and drug possession. He has been held in custody pending a bail hearing.
Thief caught in the act LEAMINGTON — The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have arrested and charged a Leamington woman with multiple property offences in the municipality. On August 4 at approximately 1:30 a.m., uniformed officers conducting proactive patrols, arrested a woman on Cheyenne Court, caught
breaking into a vehicle. The same individual has been charged with property-related offences on several other occasions in recent weeks, each time involving thefts from unlocked vehicles. The 29-year-old remains in custody pending a bail hearing charged with more than 20 criminal property and bail vio-
lation offences. The OPP is reminding Leamington residents to lock their car doors, remove all valuables visible inside the vehicle and close their garage doors. Leamington officers recently reported observing seven garage doors left open in one subdivision during an overnight patrol.
