Crime

At 4:05 a.m. on Dawson Crescent, the pattern repeated: headlights in the dark, a brief pause, and another family wakes to find their driveway emptied of a Ford Expedition. In Innisfil, vehicle theft has become more than a nuisance—it’s a call to action echoing through the quiet streets. The latest incident unfolded in the early […]

Early morning roads in Simcoe County carried more than just commuters this December—they were a stage for a series of incidents that underscore mounting public safety concerns around impaired driving and drug possession. On the outskirts of Alliston, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint just after 8:00 a.m. A pickup truck was

A brisk March day at Greenwood-McCann Park became a turning point for Angus when community fears crystallized around one chilling attempt—an attempt that will ripple through local courts and family conversations for years to come. Anthony Holtorf, a 37-year-old from Clearview, was sentenced as a long-term offender after being convicted of attempting to abduct young

Sirens cut through the June air on Henry Street, their promise of help met with the grim reality of a woman’s silent collapse in a neighbourhood backyard. In the months since, answers have proved scarce, but the urgency has only grown. On June 5, a 50-year-old Barrie woman was found gravely injured behind a home,

One conversation, months of trust, and $1.3 million gone—Orillia’s latest cyber crime case is a gut punch to anyone who thinks it couldn’t happen here. The story began with a phone call to Harry Little, an 85-year-old retiree in Orillia, alerting him to supposed computer troubles. Soon, the benign warning twisted into a sophisticated online

On a cold December morning, Barrie’s courthouse bustled with tension as Hailey Roberts, shrouded in mask and sunglasses, learned her fate for impersonating a nurse within local long-term care homes. Roberts, 33, orchestrated a calculated deception that reached into the heart of Simcoe County’s most vulnerable institutions. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, she

Fluorescent lights flickered above the rows of pew-like benches at Barrie’s main courthouse, where an unusual legal defence has drawn a crowd of keen-eyed observers. This week, a 49-year-old Barrie man faced the final rounds of testimony in his sexual assault trial, opting for a defence seldom heard in Canadian courtrooms: sexsomnia. The charges—sexual assault,

In one swift operation, more than a kilogram of powerful narcotics and three firearms vanished from Simcoe County’s streets, upending criminal activity that had quietly rippled through Collingwood, Barrie, and Vaughan for months. The investigation, led by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit, first took root in early autumn when suspicious activity

Three mailboxes, all flung open and empty, greeted residents on Hanmer Street West last Friday—a sight that sent a jolt of unease through more than one Barrie household. In the quiet north end, regular routines were upended when Steve Glover arrived to collect his mail and found not a letter in sight. His first reaction

Darkness crept in when the Rotary Club of Barrie discovered key holiday items missing from their donation drive, but hope returned just as swiftly as the stolen goods themselves. Early December brought an unwelcome surprise to the Rotary Club of Barrie. Essential holiday donations, intended for the city’s most vulnerable, vanished from storage overnight. Spirits