MARATHON, ON – On February 3, 2019 at approximately 6:00 a.m. officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment received a call regarding a motor vehicle collision on Highway 627 involving a possible impaired driver. Officers attended the area and located a white 2005 Chevy [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On February 3, 2019 at approximately 1:15 a.m. officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment conducted a RIDE on the Pic Mobert Road. A Dodge Caravan entered the RIDE and the male driver was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol. The driver [Read more]
MANITOWADGE, ON – On December 2, 2018, at approximately 11:00 p.m. an officer of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Manitouwadge detachment was on patrol when he observed a motorized snow machine (MSV) driving on a roadway in Manitouwadge. The MSV was travelling in the center of the roadway and [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On February 1, 2018, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB) with the assistance of the Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau (POIB), the Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Emergency Response Team (ERT), K-9, members of the Marathon [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On February 7, 2018 at approximately 3:35 a.m. officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment were on general patrol in the Town of Marathon. Officers observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed and a traffic stop was conducted on the vehicle. [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On February 1, 2018, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB) with the assistance of the Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau (POIB), the Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Emergency Response Team (ERT), K-9 Unit, members of the [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On January 25, 2018 at approximately 5:20 p.m. officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment received a report regarding a possible impaired driver in the Town of Marathon area. Officers patrolled the area and located the vehicle in a parking lot of a [Read more]
The Ontario Provincial Police is ALWAYS HIRING. In fact, the OPP is once again opening the doors to the public on an unprecedented scale showcasing what policing in Northwestern Ontario is all about. Through the use of social media, the OPP is also hoping to provide another avenue for everyone, [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On Wednesday, March 16, 2017 at approximately 12:40 pm, Marathon and Manitouwadge members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were advised of a plane crash that happened on Tuesday, March 15, 2017 at 11:38 pm approximately 60 km East of Marathon. The crash site was located [Read more]
MARATHON, ON –On December 30, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. members of the Marathon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a call of intoxicated subjects on the road, at Peninsula Road, Town of Marathon. The subjects were located by police operating a motor vehicle. The vehicle [Read more]
MARATHON, ON –December 16, 2016 at approximately 8:15 a.m. there was a report of a structure fire in the Town of Marathon. Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment attended 1 Stevens Avenue, Marathon, where an abandoned apartment building, known as the Everest Bayview [Read more]
MARATHON, ON –The annual Festive RIDE (Reduce Impaired Drivers Everywhere) campaign by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) continues until January 7, 2016. Members of the Marathon OPP Detachment have completed 78 RIDE programs since the initiative started on November 21, 2016, and two drivers [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – October 3, 2016 members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment received a report of a suspicious male in the Town of Marathon. A female reported to police that at approximately 10:00 p.m. she was walking on the trails in the Town of Marathon, and she observed [Read more]
Male Located MARATHON, ON – On September 26, 2016 at approximately 12:49am Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was contacted regarding a missing 67-year–old male from Marathon identified as Greg WITZELL. The male had left his hunt camp, located 20 kms up the North Regan Road the [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – The Manitouwadge Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a male that was last seen on Mair Camp Road, near Caramat, Ontario. The OPP is attempting to locate and identify this male who got off the train near the town of [Read more]
