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Police blotter: Drug charges in Delhi

A Norfolk man faces trafficking charges after police were called to an apartment in Delhi this week. Norfolk OPP responded Monday around 8:40 a.m. after receiving a complaint about unknown individuals that were located inside the apartment. Attending officers located a male and a female inside. Following an investigation, a 30-year-old male was charged with possession of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking, possession of methamphetamine, possession of proceeds obtained by crime, and failure to comply with a probation order. Attempted theft in Waterford Three youths fled the scene of an attempted theft in Waterford last week. Around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, three youths were spotted attempting to make off with a paddleboat. A neighbour in the vicinity came out and scared  them away. Two of the youths were described as white while the third was described to police as Indigenous. Norfolk OPP are investigating. Money stolen from bakery A bakery in Simcoe was the ...
LEBANON TWP.  – A quarry upstream from the  Spruce Run Reservoir  and State Park Recreation Area has discharged a large quantity of sediment into the the drinking and recreational water source. Raritan Headwaters Association policy director,   Bill Kibler took a photo  of the sediment clouding the Spruce Run Creek off Van Syckles Road near the border of Lebanon and Clinton Townships, at the mouth of the reservoir. According to Kibler, at some point over the weekend of Saturday, July 29, and Sunday, July 30, a large amount of stone dust sludge was apparently discharged from the  Eastern Concrete Materials, Inc. Glen Gardner Quarry into the Spruce Run. Kibler saids that the discharge affects 1.5 to 2 miles of the Spruce Run upstream from the reservoir and that the sediment is knee deep in places. This is not only harmful to fish, frogs and salamanders, but also the aquatic insects they eat. The Spruce Run is classified by the state as a C1 trout pro...