{"id":103842,"date":"2017-05-24T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103842"},"modified":"2017-05-24T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T06:15:11","slug":"thunder-bay-ont-police-chief-charged-with-breach-of-trust-obstructing-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/24\/thunder-bay-ont-police-chief-charged-with-breach-of-trust-obstructing-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay, Ont., police chief charged with breach of trust, obstructing justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103846\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/14915608_1218873858169864_6678182187825373177_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103846\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/14915608_1218873858169864_6678182187825373177_n.jpg\" alt=\"The police chief of a northwestern Ontario city is facing charges following a five-month investigation into alleged criminal wrongdoing. (Photo: Thunder Bay Police Service\/Facebook)\" width=\"780\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/14915608_1218873858169864_6678182187825373177_n.jpg 780w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/14915608_1218873858169864_6678182187825373177_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/14915608_1218873858169864_6678182187825373177_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/14915608_1218873858169864_6678182187825373177_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The police chief of a northwestern Ontario city is facing charges following a five-month investigation into alleged criminal wrongdoing. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thunderbaypolice\/photos\/a.518320444891879.1073741825.518319814891942\/1218873858169864\/?type=1&amp;theater\"> Thunder Bay Police Service\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ORILLIA, Ont. \u2014 The police chief of a northwestern Ontario city is facing charges following a five-month investigation into alleged criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Provincial Police say J.P. Levesque, 53, of Thunder Bay, Ont., is charged with breach of trust and obstructing justice.<\/p>\n<p>The police force says in a news release that it was contacted by RCMP in January and asked to conduct an external, independent and thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>No other details of the investigation have been released and the OPP says Levesque is to appear in court June 13.<\/p>\n<p>Levesque&#8217;s lawyer, Brian Gover, says his client is \u201ca person of outstanding good character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gover says in an email that Levesque, who is on leave, looks forward \u201cto fully responding to the allegations against him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a police officer, Mr. Levesque has served the people of Thunder Bay in an exemplary manner for 30 years, including as chief of police since July 2011,\u201d he said Tuesday in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORILLIA, Ont. \u2014 The police chief of a northwestern Ontario city is facing charges following a five-month investigation into alleged &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[19492],"class_list":["post-103842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-thunder-bay-ontario-police","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}