{"id":14553,"date":"2020-05-26T10:57:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2020-05-26T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:57:50","slug":"police-arrest-impaired-driver-with-child-in-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14553","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest impaired driver with child in vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> A&nbsp;26-year-old Middle Sackville man faces impaired driving charges after a concerned caller contacted police in regards to a possible impaired driver. A child was located inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 22, 8:25&nbsp;p.m., Halifax Regional Police received a call of a possible impaired driver in Halifax. The caller provided a description of the vehicle and the license plate number to police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A member of the RCMP Southeast Traffic Service located the vehicle a short time later, in Lower Sackville. The driver showed signs of impairment and was arrested. A child was located safe inside the vehicle and was placed in the care of a responsible person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver was taken to the Lower Sackville RCMP detachment where he provided samples of his breath. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court on August 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;47&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you drive impaired, you put yourself and others at risk. There is always an alternative to driving while impaired. The RCMP wants to encourage everyone to report suspected impaired drivers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RCMP can be contacted anywhere in Nova Scotia by calling&nbsp;1-800-803-RCMP. If it is an emergency, call&nbsp;911, and be prepared to provide the following information about the vehicle and\/or the driver:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>license plate number<\/li><li>make and model of the vehicle<\/li><li>description of the driver<\/li><li>location of the vehicle and direction of travel<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SACKVILLE: A&nbsp;26-year-old Middle Sackville man faces impaired driving charges after a concerned caller contacted police in regards to a possible impaired driver. A child was located inside the vehicle. On May 22, 8:25&nbsp;p.m., Halifax Regional Police received a call of a possible impaired driver in Halifax. The caller provided a description of the vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1120,14,25],"class_list":["post-14553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-impaired-driver","tag-rcmp","tag-sackville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553","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=14553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/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=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}