Monday, December 3, 2007

TWO MISSING PERSONS LOCATED BY OPP AND MNR

(Wawa, On) On Sunday December 02nd, 2007, The Superior East Wawa OPP were notified of two missing Hawk Junction residents. Police were advised that a 44 year old male and is 12 year old son had failed to return home from the Frater Road area, located approximately 90 Kilometres South of Wawa.
A search of the Frater Road area was conducted on snowmachine by the Wawa OPP and the Wawa MNR.
At approximately 2:37 am on Monday December 03rd, 2007 the pair were located and were reported to be in good health. The two became distressed after their snowmachine had broken through the thin ice.
The OPP is reminding the public not to venture on any bodies of water until the ice is safe to do so.

OVERDUE TRAPPERS RESCUED

(Searchmont, Ont.) Rescue personnel from the Sault Ste Marie OPP detachment were called out north of Searchmont over the weekend.

On Saturday night at about 6:00 p.m. family members of two men reported them overdue from a trappers shack off Whitman Dam Road, northeast of Searchmont.

Officers reached the area late in the evening by snow machine. It appears that sometime on Wed 28 Nov 2007 two Sault Ste Marie men drove their pick up truck into the area to set up their trap line for the winter. Little did they know that winter was closing in right behind them. After several days of heavy snow in the area, the men realized that they were not going to drive the truck out. The two men stayed at the trapper’s cabin.

Family members became concerned because one of the men has a serious asthma problem. Four OPP officers reached the cabin to find the two men, a forty three year old and a sixty eight year old man, in good health but running out of food.

The two were transported out of the bush on the police snow machines and returned to their homes in Sault Ste Marie. Their truck was left in the area to be removed at a later date.

THREE CHARGED AFTER EARLY MORNING FIGHT

(Batchewana First Nation, Ont.) The Batchewana First Nation Police have charged three people after a one woman was assaulted and a car damaged.

On Saturday December 1, 2007 at about 6:00 a.m. the Batchewana First Nation Police were called to a home on Gran Street on the Territory. Initial reports were that a woman, who was visiting the home, was struck on the head with a bottle. She was taken to hospital by ambulance with head injuries.

Batchewana First Nation Police were able to determine that at about 6:00 a.m. insults were directed at some people in the home. As a result of the insults bottles were thrown in the direction of two people in the home. One man was ejected from the house by the occupants of the home. After he was thrown out he broke a railing off a step and smashed the windshield and windows of a car parked in the driveway.

As a result of this investigation the Batchewana First Nation Police have charged three people. Thirty three (33) year old Walter Peter MILLER OF 129 Alexander Street, Sault Ste Marie has been charged with one count of Mischief Under $5000.00. Twenty eight (28) year old Patrice NEYLAND of 64 Superior Drive, Batchawana Bay has been charged with Assault With a Weapon. Twenty nine (29) year old Dawn NEYLAND of 44 Boston Ave has been charged with Assault. All three accused have been released from custody on conditional releases.

STILL TRYING THE CATCH UP FROM THE STORMS

(Pancake Bay, Ont.) The series of snow storms that swept threw Sault Ste Marie area over the weekend still has vehicles going into ditches and some still in the ditches.

Sault Ste Marie OPP responded to eighteen crashes since Friday afternoon when the first storm blew into our area. A loaded transport truck still remains on its side in the ditch on Hwy 17 just north of Pancake Bay.

Adverse weather conditions in the area north of Sault Ste Marie have made the removal of the truck just too dangerous. It is expected that the truck may be left there until at least Tuesday before the weather lets up enough to allow the tow company start the process of off loading the trucks cargo and getting the rig up righted and out of the ditch.

Officers with a the Sault Ste Marie OPP were called for two more vehicle that went into the ditch this morning on Hwy 17 east of Sault Ste Marie.

There were no reports of any injuries in any of the crashes reported to our office over the weekend.