OPP Beat

Hwy 556 Ranger Lake Rd Closed at Ranger Lake (Sault Ste Marie, Ont.

ROAD CLOSURE The Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police wish to advise all motorists that Highway 556 will be closed at Ranger Lake due to high water levels and dangerous bridge conditions.

CHOCOLAT BARS, CIGARETTES AND MONEY TAKEN (Serpent River First Nations, Ont.) Police are currently investigating a break enter and theft at Jeff’s Smoke Shop on Highway 17.

CAR vs. MOOSE FATAL COLLISION - Highway 144 (Sudbury, ON) - At 9:10 p.m.

Victim Positively Identified (Wawa, Ontario) Police have positively identified the body recovered from Catfish Creek, north of Wawa on Saturday, April 19th.

Victim Yet to be Positively Identified (Wawa, Ontario) Superior East OPP continue to investigate the discovery of an abandoned car and recovery of a body from a nearby creek that occurred on Saturday April 19th north of Wawa.

CHARGES FOR BRANTFORD MAN NETS HIM A TRIP BACK TO BLIND RIVER (Blind River, Ont.) On April 19, 2008 at 1:41 a.m. officers of the East Algoma OPP were dispatched to attend a single motor vehicle collision in Blind River.

Abandoned Car Found on Hwy 17 North of Wawa (Wawa, Ontario):On April 19th 2008 at approximately 6:40AM, Superior East OPP, Wawa checked an abandoned vehicle 25 kms North of Wawa on Hwy 17.

STORAGE BUILDING BROKEN INTO (Thessalon, Ontario) On Friday April 18, 2008 at approximately 8:00 a.m. the East Algoma Thessalon OPP were contacted regarding a storage building being broken into at Lakeside Park, located in Thessalon, Ontario.

TWO KILLED IN COLLISION - UPDATE Highway 17, Baldwin Township (Espanola, ON) - At 1:40 p.m.