Two sent to hospital in suspected impaired crash in Courtice
CLARINGTON — Police arrested a Clarington man for impaired driving Saturday night after a crash at White Cliffe and Robert Adams drives in Courtice. Durham Police Inspector Jamie Grant said at around...
View ArticleAccused killer Thomas Chan's no-contact list grows while in Peterborough...
PETERBOROUGH -- The man accused of murdering his father is back in court Jan. 26. Thomas Chan, 19, made a brief court appearance Monday (Jan. 11) via video. He is accused of murdering his father , Dr....
View ArticleCourtice man, Jonathan Holdbrook, facing impaired driving charge after two...
CLARINGTON -- A 24-year-old Courtice resident is facing impaired driving charges after an accident Saturday night, Durham police report. The accident happened at about 9 p.m. on Jan. 9 when the driver...
View ArticleTwo sought in Ajax home break-in
AJAX -- A 52-year-old woman at home alone found two men breaking in her house. Durham police report the woman was at home on Friday, Jan. 8 at about 10 a.m. when she heard a noise. She found a man in...
View ArticleDurham police issue more than 1,000 tickets for traffic offences in school...
OSHAWA -- During a school zone traffic blitz last week, Durham police issued 1,362 traffic tickets -- including 786 tickets for speeding. The police traffic services branch, with officers from all...
View ArticlePolice seek four suspects after Pickering woman robbed at knifepoint
PICKERING -- Police are looking for four suspects after a woman was robbed at knifepoint while walking home in Pickering Sunday afternoon. On Jan. 10, at around 4:30 p.m., the 25-year-old woman was...
View ArticleTeens arrested in Scugog barn arson in July 2014
DURHAM -- A pair of teenagers face arson charges after a Scugog barn was set on fire in July 2014. On July 16, 2014, a dilapidated barn on Reach Street was torched by unknown suspects, Durham police...
View ArticleGeorgina maids charged with stealing prescription drugs
Police suspect there are victims who haven't come forward
View ArticleOshawa teen missing since December found safe
OSHAWA -- An Oshawa teenager reported missing in late December has been located and is safe, police said. Durham police issued an appeal to 16-year-old Raymond Cook to check in with authorities. The...
View ArticleAbuse of process motion dismissed, sign bylaw charges against former...
DURHAM -- A justice of the peace has dismissed Peter Rodrigues’s claim that he’s the victim of abuse of process, meaning the former Pickering councillor’s trial on allegations of contravening the...
View ArticleMan charged with fleeing police in Ajax
AJAX -- A 22-year-old man faces several charges after fleeing police early Wednesday morning in Ajax, police report. Just after midnight on Jan. 13, Durham Regional Police officers patrolling on...
View ArticleDurham police seek review of racial profiling finding against two officers...
DURHAM -- The Durham Regional Police Service has announced it will appeal a recent Human Rights Tribunal decision that concluded two of its officers engaged in racial profiling. The service will apply...
View ArticleSuspect sought in theft of iPad from Oxford Learning Centre in Bowmanville
BOWMANVILLE -- Police are trying to identify a suspect in the theft of an iPad from a Bowmanville learning centre Jan. 13. The female suspect dropped a laptop and phone after being confronted, but...
View ArticleGoFundMe Page set up for woman injured during Dr. Chan killing
PETERBOROUGH-- A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Lynn Witteveen recover from injuries sustained the night Dr. Andrew Chan was allegedly killed by his son Thomas Chan. The page was set up by...
View ArticleSuspect sought after attack on snowplow driver in Whitby
WHITBY -- Police are trying to identify a suspect in an assault on a snowplow driver last month in Whitby. Durham police have released an image of the suspect, who was involved in an altercation with...
View ArticleOshawa man Kingsley Ugbaja, on bail awaiting drug trial, busted for importing...
OSHAWA -- An Oshawa man already facing charges of importing heroin was busted for the same offence by Durham cops Thursday. More than 200 grams of heroin with a value of $62,000 were seized during the...
View ArticleDurham cops keep kitchen fire from spreading in Pickering townhouse
PICKERING -- Quick action by two Durham cops helped prevent a kitchen fire from spreading in a Pickering home early Thursday. The officers arrived at the scene of the fire in a Kingston Road townhouse...
View ArticleVaughan home invader assaults woman in front of her 3 young children
Culprit took woman's wedding, engagement rings from her finger
View ArticleOne busted, one bloodied in Ajax parking spot fight
AJAX -- Charges were laid after two people came to blows in an Ajax parking lot Friday. The fight between two men at noon Jan. 15 appears to have arisen from a dispute over a parking spot at the...
View ArticleWhitby man Joseph Beauregard found guilty of second-degree murder in grisly...
After three days of deliberation, on Saturday night a jury found two men guilty of second-degree murder in the grisly 2011 shooting death of 23-year-old Leanne Freeman. “At the time of Leanne Freeman’s...
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