{"id":14000,"date":"2020-04-07T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14000"},"modified":"2020-04-07T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:28:27","slug":"halifax-man-charged-with-stunting-impaired-driving-flight-from-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14000","title":{"rendered":"Halifax man charged with stunting, impaired driving, flight from police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BROOKFIELD:<\/strong>On April 5, at approximately 2 a.m., a member of Colchester District RCMP was monitoring traffic on Hwy. 102, when he noted a vehicle travelling at 161 km\/hr.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it passed the police vehicle, the suspect vehicle accelerated to 178km\/hr and the driver turned the lights off on the vehicle, in an apparent effort to evade the police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police officer attempted a traffic stop however the suspect vehicle took Exit 12, and was located by police in a nearby driveway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 29-year-old male driver from Halifax was showing signs of being impaired by alcohol. He took a Roadside Screening Device test and failed, and was then taken to Colchester District RCMP for additional testing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The driver was found to have a blood alcohol level over the legal limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was released later that morning and is facing the following criminal charges: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7        Flight from Police<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7        Operating a Conveyance While Impaired<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7        Operating a Conveyance With a Blood Alcohol Concentration Over 80 mg%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, he is being charged with Stunting under the Provincial Motor Vehicle Act.\u00a0The vehicle was seized and impounded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fine for stunting in Nova Scotia is $2,422.50. He will appear in Truro Provincial Court at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BROOKFIELD:On April 5, at approximately 2 a.m., a member of Colchester District RCMP was monitoring traffic on Hwy. 102, when he noted a vehicle travelling at 161 km\/hr.  As it passed the police vehicle, the suspect vehicle accelerated to 178km\/hr and the driver turned the lights off on the vehicle, in an apparent effort to evade the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[1021,50,14],"class_list":["post-14000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-brookfield","tag-halifax","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}