{"id":36181,"date":"2023-05-31T21:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=36181"},"modified":"2023-05-31T21:13:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:13:40","slug":"impaired-driving-illegal-possession-charges-for-ontario-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=36181","title":{"rendered":"Impaired driving, illegal possession charges for Ontario man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIBLE HILL:<\/strong> A 66-year-old man from Ontario has been charged with a slew of offences after beings topped for impaired driving on Mya 27 on Hwy 104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say that at approximately 10:30 a.m., members of the Cumberland County District RCMP and Colchester County District RCMP responded to an impaired driving complaint on Hwy. 104. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle was located at the Hwy. 104 and Hwy. 102 interchange and a traffic stop was initiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOfficers noted that the driver, a 66-year-old Ontario man, was displaying signs of impairment,\u201d said police in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man provided a sample of breath into an Approved Screening Device which resulted in a 0mg% result, indicating that he did not have alcohol in his system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs the impaired driving investigation continued, officers located unmarked prescription medication on the man and unstamped tobacco was observed in his vehicle,\u201d said police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was arrested and his vehicle was seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EHS was contacted to ensure that the man was not experiencing a medical event and, once cleared by paramedics, he was transported to the Bible Hill Detachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A search warrant was executed on the vehicle, a Ford Econoline, and officers located over 643,000 unstamped cigarettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man also submitted to a Standardized Field Sobriety Test, which he failed and a subsequent Drug Recognition Examination, which he also failed, indicating that he was impaired by a drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was later released from custody and will be facing charges of Impaired Operation of a Conveyance and Illegal Possession of Tobacco Products and Raw Leaf Tobacco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man will appear in Truro Provincial Court at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #\u2019s: 2023-725798, 2023-732472 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;148&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;] BIBLE HILL: A 66-year-old man from Ontario has been charged with a slew of offences after beings topped for impaired driving on Mya 27 on Hwy 104. Police say that at approximately 10:30 a.m., members of the Cumberland County District RCMP and Colchester County District RCMP responded to an impaired driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[1258,797,5000,52,2416,14],"class_list":["post-36181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-colchester-county","tag-drugs","tag-illegal-possession","tag-impaired-driving","tag-ontario","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181","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=36181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}