{"id":40528,"date":"2023-11-19T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=40528"},"modified":"2023-11-19T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:30:00","slug":"stop-for-speeding-leads-to-impaired-driving-charge-against-enfield-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=40528","title":{"rendered":"Stop for speeding leads to impaired driving charge against Enfield man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> A 52-year-old Enfield man\u2019s day went from bad to worse after East Hants RCMP stopped him for speeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer, said an officer completed a traffic stop on a motorist after they were observed travelling 78 kilometres per hour in a posted 50 km\/h zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the officer made contact with the driver, signs of impairment by alcohol were noted,\u201d said Const. Burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man subsequently provided samples of his breath roadside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8242;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said after registering a \u201cfail\u201d on the breath demand, the man was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was brought to the Enfield Detachment where he provided two more samples of his breath,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, Jeffrey Barrett, 52, of Enfield has been charged with impaired driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrett is scheduled to appear in court in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;] ENFIELD: A 52-year-old Enfield man\u2019s day went from bad to worse after East Hants RCMP stopped him for speeding. East Hants RCMP Const. Preston Burns, Community Policing Officer, said an officer completed a traffic stop on a motorist after they were observed travelling 78 kilometres per hour in a posted 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965],"tags":[196,1581,390,1053,52,14,663],"class_list":["post-40528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-rcmp","tag-enfield","tag-enfield-rcmp","tag-impaired-driving","tag-rcmp","tag-speeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528","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=40528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40528\/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=40528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}