Local and national crime stories
Streetlights flickered on Mill Street just before sunrise, illuminating the quiet only briefly before chaos took its place—a masked figure, a flash of steel, and a local gas station staffer staring down the cold edge of a knife. In the early hours, the routine hum of Angus was pierced by a brazen act at a […]
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Flashing lights painted the facades of Dunlop Street East late into the evening, an unsettling backdrop to the questions now echoing through Barrie’s downtown core. Police responded to reports of a stabbing on Dunlop Street East, a stretch familiar to most Barrie residents. The incident, which unfolded in the heart of the city, quickly drew
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Under the sodium glow behind 75 Ellen Street, one fleeting moment may hold the key to unraveling a condo break-in that has stirred a quiet Barrie neighbourhood. On November 13, just as dusk settled in, the Barrie Police Service found themselves turning to the public for help in a puzzling investigation. A second-floor condominium at
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Inside the fluorescent-lit halls of the Barrie courthouse, the fate of both art and reputation hung in the balance as justice confronted one of Canada’s most notorious Indigenous art scandals. Jeff Cowan, a man whose dealings once traced a line from Niagara-on-the-Lake to St. Thomas, now finds his name indelibly linked to fraud. A jury
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Red lights blinked through the pre-dawn stillness on Mapleview Drive West, slicing the quiet as police responded to alarms ringing from a local car dealership. By sunrise, Barrie’s south end had a new story to tell—a break-in, a senior suspect, and a reminder that crime knows no age. At precisely 2:16 a.m. on November 10,
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Two familiar names, an unfamiliar silence: Barrie police have sounded the alarm after two residents vanished, possibly behind the wheel of a marked U-Haul truck or van, leaving a neighbourhood on edge and a community on alert. Sacha Charles and Antonie Chimenti, both 46, were last spotted on McVeigh Drive in north Barrie, somewhere between
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In Essa Township, the echo of skates on ice has been replaced, at least for now, by murmurs of disbelief and questions of trust. A modest minor hockey association, the heart of many local winters, finds itself engulfed in the chilling reality of financial betrayal. Nottawasaga Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) launched an investigation on May
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Three break-ins in Midhurst over just two weeks have put this normally quiet community right on edge, with the Huronia West OPP urgently searching for answers—and for suspects. It all started on September 29 at about 7 p.m. when a home on St. Vincent Street in Springwater Township was hit. Not long after, on October
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