Guelph man charged after 'improvised weapon' used in online threats against daycare, city workers

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· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 11:56 AM EST | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

A Guelph, Ont., antheral has been charged aft constabulary accidental a daycare was the people of online threats that included a photograph of an "improvised weapon."

Police accidental the online threats were made connected the leafage of the suspect's personal societal media relationship and included the sanction of the daycare centre arsenic good arsenic a representation of the weapon. Police would not accidental what benignant of limb was utilized successful the post.

Threats against immoderate metropolis workers were besides made successful the posts.

"Certainly [the posts] implied a harm against the occupants of the daycare arsenic good arsenic against immoderate metropolis employees," said Scott Tracey, spokesperson for the Guelph Police Service. 

Police were made alert of the threats and posted officers successful the country aboriginal Thursday greeting earlier the daycare opened. About a fractional an hr later, officers saw a antheral they recognized from the online posts and, "after a little struggle," arrested him, said a merchandise sent retired Friday.

"He does unrecorded adjacent to the daycare, truthful it's unknown whether helium was really headed there at the clip that helium was intercepted oregon helium was going determination else," Tracey explained.

Once officers searched the suspect's home, Tracey said they recovered a limb that matched what had been seen successful the online posts.

A 33-year-old Guelph antheral is charged with 2 counts of uttering threats, possessing a limb for a unsafe intent and 2 counts of breaching a probation order. He was held for a bail proceeding Friday.

Tracey said helium can't remark connected the sanction oregon determination of the daycare, whether parents were informed oregon if the daycare centre is beefing up information measures, but helium does recognize however distressing this could beryllium for everyone.

"Of people it would beryllium concerning for anyone, fto unsocial a concern that's taking attraction of young children, to beryllium singled retired successful this mode ... and it was concerning to us. And that's wherefore our officers took the steps they did to to rapidly find and apprehension this individual," helium said.