Thunder Bay Police

• Police end Thunder Bay landfill search after no new evidence found in woman’s death

  Deborah Anishinabie, 42, was reported missing in early December 2024 and confirmed to be dead later that month.

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  Dec 22, 2025
  
• Ontario First Nation leaders call for disbandment of Thunder Bay police

  First Nation leaders are renewing calls to dissolve the Thunder Bay police as the force's former leadership faces charges in a widening misconduct probe.

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  Apr 22, 2024
  
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• Thunder Bay Police facing credibility issues amid recent arrests of former members

  Chief Darcy Fleury and police board chair Karen Machado expressed the sentiment during a joint news conference about last week's arrests of ex-chief Sylvie Hauth and the lawyer.

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  Apr 16, 2024
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• Thunder Bay police chief arrested and charged in misconduct probe

  A former police chief in the northern Ontario city of Thunder Bay was arrested and charged on Friday, marking the third arrest in an ongoing investigation by provincial police.

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  Apr 12, 2024
• Former lawyer for Thunder Bay police is facing charges for obstruction and breach of trust

  A former lawyer for the Thunder Bay Police is facing five charges in connection with an ongoing investigation into allegations of misconduct in the force.

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  Apr 10, 2024
• First call to police wasn’t for ‘violence in home’, says SIU in probe into woman’s death

  The victim’s family in Ontario identified her to Global News as Jenna Ostberg, a 21-year-old First Nations woman. Thunder Bay police has yet to respond.

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  Jan 12, 2024
• ‘Enough is enough’: Native group lambastes lack of police response in Ontario woman’s death

  The Native Women's Association of Canada is calling out the lack of police response after a woman from Thunder Bay, Ont. died after police allegedly did not respond to a 911 call.

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  Jan 10, 2024
• Ontario woman found dead after police allegedly don’t respond to 911 call

  Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is looking into the death of a woman in Thunder Bay, Ont., after they say the local police force didn't respond to a domestic call.

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  Jan 4, 2024
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• Two facing attempted murder charges after hotel incident in Thunder Bay

  Police say officers responded to a hotel room in the 1000 block of Dawson Road at about 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 5.

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  Sep 1, 2023
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• Thunder Bay jail crowded, understaffed, inquest into Indigenous artist’s death hears

  A senior officer at a Thunder Bay jail is telling an inquest the facility was understaffed and overcrowded with inmates when a renowned Indigenous artist died at the jail.

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  Apr 28, 2023