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A police dog handler who helped find 40 kilograms of cocaine in two cardboard boxes in a transport truck on the Blue Water Bridge testified Friday as a truck driver’s approximately $4M drug smuggling trial continued theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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Blue Water Bridge $4M trucker drug smuggling trial: Officer recalls finding cocaine in two Home Depot boxes theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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A B.C. politician and newspaper editor took the stand Friday in an historical sexual assault trial in Sarnia and repeatedly denied allegations from when he was a youth basketball coach and Sarnia Observer sports reporter theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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The man convicted of second-degree murder and kidnapping on Walpole Island by a Sarnia-Lambton jury will appeal, his lawyer says theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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A Sarnia teacher has been arrested and is facing several underage sex-related charges involving more than one student, Sarnia police say theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…

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Jury hears grim details as Walpole Island first-degree murder, kidnapping trial opens at the Sarnia courthouse theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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The Sarnia man accused of strangling a person who was praying inside a downtown church one year ago was scheduled to go to trial Thursday. Instead, Nicholas Ritonja had his handcuffs taken off and he walked out of the courthouse a free man. theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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Sarnia man ‘lucky’ he didn’t die or kill anyone after crashing into cornfield while over the limit theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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A Southwestern Ontario truck driver has avoided a criminal record, but has been put on probation and ordered to do community service after punching another trucker in the face on the Blue Water Bridge theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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Knife-wielding naked Sarnia man sentenced to four years in prison for Kathleen Avenue sexual assault theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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A young Sarnia man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for pointing his cellphone camera up a teenager’s skirt in a store, the second time he’s done this, and for breaking into a woman’s bedroom late at night and pulling her covers off theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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Breaking: A 32-year-old Walpole Island man has been charged with second-degree murder linked to a New Year's Day firearms-related death probe on the First Nation theobserver.ca/news/local-ne…
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