NEWS RELEASE
OPP
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GEORGIAN BAY TOWNSHIP — Officers from the Southern Georgian Bay detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) with the assistance of the Southern Georgian Bay OPP Crime Unit have arrested and charged a male in relation to human trafficking offences.
Officers made the arrest on February 7, 2017 during a traffic stop on Highway 400 where investigation revealed that a female in the vehicle was in need of assistance.
The male was arrested and transported to detachment and held for bail court.
Charged is 32-year-old Jean Alex Papillon, of Pierrefonds in the Province of Quebec.
He is charged with traffick in persons, material benefits resulting from trafficking in persons, uttering threats – cause death or bodily harm, assault and 2 counts of transfers an identity document.
He was held for a bail hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice in Barrie.
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