SIU – No Charges In Man’s Death Following Police Interaction in Port Hope

In Editor Choice, Police Blotter

The Director of the Special Investigations Unit, Joseph Martino, has found no reasonable grounds to believe that two Ontario Provincial Police officers committed a criminal offence in connection with a 35-year-old man’s self-inflicted death in Port Hope last May.


On May 25, 2021, the OPP found the man deceased in his room at the Comfort Inn in Port Hope. OPP officers had interacted with him the day prior for reportedly assaulting and confining his estranged girlfriend.

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