{"id":23706,"date":"2021-09-22T00:37:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=23706"},"modified":"2021-09-22T00:37:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:37:20","slug":"halifax-county-man-impaired-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=23706","title":{"rendered":"Halifax County man charged with impaired driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> A tip from a keen eyewitness of an intoxicated man at a business in Elmsdale helped police take an impaired driver from Halifax County off the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said officers were called after the report of the man being inside a local business, appearing to be drunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said further information indicated the male drove to the business while impaired.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival at the scene, members found the male back in his vehicle and sitting behind the wheel,\u2019 said S\/Sgt. Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that after failing the roadside screening test, the man was arrested and taken back to the detachment for a breath test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe man blew over the legal limit and was subsequently charged,\u201d said S\/Sgt. Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt\/ Bushell said the Halifax County man will appear in court at a later date to answer to the impaired driving-related charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;133&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELMSDALE: A tip from a keen eyewitness of an intoxicated man at a business in Elmsdale helped police take an impaired driver from Halifax County off the road. East Hants RCMP S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said officers were called after the report of the man being inside a local business, appearing to be drunk. [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2590,1581,986,52],"class_list":["post-23706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-drunk-driving","tag-east-hants-rcmp","tag-elmsdale","tag-impaired-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706","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=23706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}