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Repeatedly calling 911 results in charges On Saturday, June 11, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Lakeshore Detachment received a call for a non-emergent neighbour dispute on Renaud Line Road in Lakeshore. At that time, officers were already responding to priority calls and the caller was advised that the officers would contact him once they were available. Over the course of the next three and a half hours, the complainant made 20 calls to 911. The complainant was continuously educated on the proper use of
911. As a result, a 47-year-old Lakeshore man was charged with public mischief and harassing communications. He will appear in court in July. “This is a dangerous misuse of resources that wasted valuable time of our communication operators that could have been assisting a member of the public with a real emergency,” said Constable Steven Duguay, Essex County OPP.
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Drowning victim identified The identity of a man who drowned at Seacliff Beach on June 20 has been confirmed. The young man had been swimming in the lake and did not surface — alarming his friends. The individual was
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la. The OPP expressed thanks to the members of the public for their efforts in attempting to save the young man’s life prior to the arrival of OPP and Emergency Medical Services.
Fatal motorcycle crash in Leamington On July 1 at 4:23 p.m., members of the Leamington Detachment Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the Essex-Windsor Emergency Medical Services and Chatham-Kent EMS were dispatched to the intersection of County Road 37 and County Road 8 in the Municipality of Leamington for a serious two vehicle collision involving a pickup truck and a motorcycle. The motorcycle had two occupants. As a result of the collision, one occupant of the motorcycle was pronounced deceased at scene and the second occu-
pant was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The lone occupant of the pickup truck was not injured. The OPP West Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement team assisted the Leamington Detachment with the investigation. County Road 8 was closed between County Road 37 and Wheatley Road for the next few hours for the investigation. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Leamington OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or online at www.opp.ca/reporting.
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On Tuesday June 21, at approximately 2:34 p.m., the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Tecumseh Detachment investigated a fraud after being called to a Tecumseh address. It was determined that a resident received a phone call where a male identified himself as a lawyer currently representing their grandson who was just arrested for impaired driving. This lawyer provided case file and confirmation number to make the call sound more legitimate. The victim was advised that his grandson was going to be held in front
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