Posts Tagged ‘police’

  • Robbery suspect apprehended

    May 17, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    Chatham-Kent police say officers arrested a suspect in connection with a weekend robbery attempt at a local convenience store. Police say on Saturday morning about 5 a.m., a man walked into the 7-Eleven on Grand Avenue West in Chatham wearing a bandana and...

  • 6 nabbed in drug raid

    May 17, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    Six people are facing charges following a drug bust in Chatham last night. Officers from the Intelligence Section, with assistance from the Critical Incidence Response Team, raided a home on Jeffrey Street. Police say the officers seized a quantity of...

  • Crime of the Week

    May 16, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    Sometime over the weekend of May 11th to the 14th, 2018, unknown suspects entered a warehouse on Patteson Avenue in Chatham.   Inside one of the storage units the thieves located a 6 burner industrial stove and an industrial meat slicer. The equipment is...

  • You can run, but …

    May 14, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    One ran away … for a while, and the other tried to run but got caught. Either way, these guys face a lot of charges. On April 29, a man drove past police officers on patrol in Blenheim. The officers were familiar with the man, police say, and knew he...

  • Lots of charges from recent drug bust

    May 8, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    A Moravian First Nation man faces a slew of charges after a late-April raid on two residences on Delaware Nation – Moravian on the Thames. Chatham-Kent OPP report on April 27 that Moraviantown First Nation Police and OPP officers raided the homes and...

  • 87 illegal turns in construction zone

    May 4, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    It appears a lot of drivers aren’t paying attention to the signage through the construction zone on Grand Avenue West in Chatham at Lacroix Street. Police report officers kept watch over the intersection this week, laying 87 charges for drivers making...

  • Two charged in truck theft

    May 4, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    An update on yesterday’s stolen pickup situation where four people were taken into custody, and one quickly released. Thursday morning, someone stole a 2017 Chevy Silverado from a parking lot in Tilbury. Officers spotted the truck on St. Clair Street in...

  • Fast cars, large fines

    May 3, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    Chatham-Kent OPP officers had their radar guns working overtime recently, clocking a trio of speedsters doing more than 140 km/h through a construction zone on Highway 401. The first took place April 30 at about 11 p.m. An eastbound vehicle flew through the...

  • Not so McHappy

    May 3, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    It may have been McHappy Day for some people Wednesday, but a couple of irate local men wound up in jail instead. Police say yesterday morning, officers learned of a domestic disturbance that occurred overnight, where a husband allegedly assaulted his wife...

  • Veteran officer gives her final 10-7

    May 2, 18 • 0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • • No Comments

    After 30 years, Chatham’s first female police officer took her last ride on patrol with the Chatham-Kent Police Service April 25. Const. Amy Finn, an officer whose care and compassion endeared her to so many members of the community, gave her final 10-7...