London Ontario
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Six Years and Nine Months for a Man With No Record at All, Because One of the Three Counts Was Participating in a Criminal Organization: Brian Hamilton-Hyatt Is Sentenced in London Three Years After Project S.A.F.E. (Originally Reported September 8, 2026)
This file was reported on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. EDT by Nick Paparella of CTV News London and is not a story that broke today. Brian Hamilton-Hyatt, 41, has been sentenced to six years and nine months in a cross-border gun smuggling case. He pleaded guilty in April 2026 to three counts:…
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Two Networks That Did Not Work Together, One Investigation That Took Both: the OPP Guns and Gangs Team Puts 64 Charges on Seven People Across Brantford, Paris, London and Oneida Nation of the Thames (Originally Reported August 31, 2026)
This file was published by the Ontario Provincial Police on Monday, August 31, 2026 and is not a story that broke today; CTV News Kitchener carried it the same afternoon at 3:22 p.m. and other outlets were still picking it up on September 2. The OPP-led Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team began an intelligence-led…
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A Man Asleep at the Wheel of a Stolen Car, Then the Cruiser He Hit Getting Out: London Police Charge Robert Roth, 42, After Finding 204 Grams of Crystal Meth and 12 Grams of Fentanyl (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 21, 2026, on an arrest made a week earlier. London Police Service Uniformed Division officers responded on August 13, 2026 to a concerned-citizen call about an unconscious man behind the wheel near Arbour Glen Crescent and Kipps Lane in the city’s north end. Police say the man woke, struck a police…
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A Welfare Check on a Hotel Room in London’s East End Turns Into 101 Grams of Fentanyl: Robert Degrace, 29, and Laurie Elizabeth Young, 37, Jointly Charged and Sent to Court on Separate Days (Reported August 20, 2026)
First reported by the London Police Service in a release dated August 19, 2026 and posted August 20, on an arrest made the previous day. Uniformed Division officers went to a hotel in London’s east end at approximately 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, to check on the welfare of an occupant. Inside the…
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An Off-Duty Officer, a Car That Rolled Into a Fence, and a Rifle in the Cabin: London Police Charge James Beretta, 29, With Seven Counts After Finding a Driver Unconscious With 254 Grams of Cocaine (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 21, 2026, on an arrest made the evening of Thursday, August 20. An off-duty London Police Service officer noticed a vehicle stopped on Florence Street near Kellogg Lane in the city’s east end at about 8 p.m.; as he approached, the vehicle began moving and struck a nearby fence. The driver…