{"id":42758,"date":"2024-02-15T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=42758"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:30:00","slug":"hammonds-plains-man-charged-with-impaired-driving-after-found-asleep-at-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=42758","title":{"rendered":"Hammonds Plains man charged with impaired driving after found asleep at the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> A 28-year-old Hammonds Plains man has been charged with impaired\u00a0 driving among other offences following an incident Feb. 8 at a farm market in Enfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Community Policing Officer Const. Preston Burns said that during the early morning hours of Feb. 8, an East Hants RCMP officer was patrolling Highway 2 in Enfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer observed a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of the Avery\u2019s Farm market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe officer approached the vehicle and discovered a man sleeping in the driver\u2019s seat with the vehicle running,\u2019 said Const. Burns.<\/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 group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said after the officer made contact with the man, the officer formed grounds to arrest him for impaired care and control of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Drug Recognition Expert Demand was read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Const. Burns said the man refused to undergo testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a result of refusing to comply with the order, further checks on the man and seized property, the man was charged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathan Paul Gervais, 28, of Hammonds Plains has been charged with a slew of offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes: impaired operation of a motor vehicle; refusing to comply with a demand; possession for the purpose of trafficking a schedule 1 drug; two counts of possession of a weapon dangerous to the public; resisting a police officer; and unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gervais also had an outstanding warrant out of Halifax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was transported to court where he was released by a judge to return on March 7 for plea in Shubenacadie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;67&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] ENFIELD: A 28-year-old Hammonds Plains man has been charged with impaired\u00a0 driving among other offences following an incident Feb. 8 at a farm market in Enfield. East Hants RCMP Community Policing Officer Const. Preston Burns said that during the early morning hours of Feb. 8, an East Hants RCMP officer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12,957],"tags":[6156,196,390,80,6157,14],"class_list":["post-42758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-news","tag-averys-farm-market","tag-east-hants","tag-enfield","tag-hammonds-plains","tag-mimpaired-driving","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758","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=42758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}