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WELLINGTON COUNTY - A Community Safety and Well-being Plan for Wellington County is now complete. Three years in development, the plan was created through a Safe Communities Wellington County (SCWC) leadership table in partnership with Wellington County OPP and the County of Wellington. 

ARTHUR – Four people from the Greater Toronto Area have been charged in connection with an illegal marijuana grow-op here. Police say officers seized over 7,500 plants valued at over $6 million, as well as a large quantity of Canadian currency and marijuana processing equipment.

ARTHUR – County of Wellington OPP’s Community Street Crime Unit and uniform officers along with the OPP’s Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau and Joint Force Cannabis Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant in Arthur on the morning of June 4.

ERIN – The driver of a car that collided with a tractor trailer here 10 days ago has died in hospital.

PALMERSTON – A Palmerston man charged earlier this year with sexual assault now faces an additional 10 charges and police say there could be additional victims.

PUSLINCH – An Elora resident is dead following a single-vehicle crash here on the weekend.

WELLINGTON NORTH – Another local man has been charged with sexual assault. He is the third Wellington North man to be charged with the crime this week.

WELLINGTON NORTH – Police have arrested a local man on 12 charges related to the sexual assault of two minors.

WELLINGTON NORTH – A local man has been charged in connection with a number of sexual assaults that took place here over a four-year period.

CENTRE WELLINGTON – A local teenager and three adults have been charged in connection with an armed robbery at a home here on the weekend.