Editor’s Note: The accused in the below Lindsay impaired driving case initially gave police a false name. This story has been updated to remove the name person they falsely implicated.
Police in Peterborough and Lindsay made several impaired driving arrests over the weekend.
On Sunday around 11 p.m., Peterborough Police Service officers responded to a call about a vehicle not following traffic signs and that had struck a curb and was veering into oncoming traffic in the area of Armour Road and Hunter Street.
Officers found the vehicle in the Roger’s Cove parking lot and determined the driver was impaired.
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Micael Jette of Baie-Comeau, Que., was arrested and charged with drug-impaired driving.
He was issued an automatic 90-day driver’s licence suspension and the vehicle was impounded for seven days. The accused was held in custody and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
Saturday, Oct. 30
Around 3:15 a.m. Saturday, Peterborough police responded to a report of a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road in the area of Monaghan Road and Braidwood Avenue with a driver slumped over the steering wheel.
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Officers located the vehicle still running and in drive. They determined the driver was impaired.
Graham Thorne, 35, of Toronto was arrested and charged with two counts of impaired driving (alcohol and drugs and blood-alcohol concentration 80-plus).
He was issued an automatic 90-day driver’s licence suspension and the vehicle was impounded for seven days.
The accused was released on an appearance notice and is scheduled to appear in court in Peterborough on Nov. 24.
Lindsay
Earlier, around 9:30 p.m, City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service officers responded to a report of two individuals slumped over in a vehicle outside a Lindsay Street South business in Lindsay.
Police determined the driver was impaired and charged them with impaired driving (alcohol and drugs). They were released and will appear in court in Lindsay on Dec. 9.
Friday, Oct. 29
Around 10 p.m. Friday in Peterborough, officers responded to a report of a vehicle in a ditch along County Road 10 just north of Highway 7A in Cavan-Monaghan Township.
Police located the driver, who was not injured, and determined the woman was impaired.
Jennifer Hardy, 32, of Minden was arrested and charged with two counts of impaired driving (alcohol and drugs and blood-alcohol concentration 80-plus).
She was issued an automatic 90-day driver’s licence suspension and the vehicle was impounded for seven days.
Hardy was released on an appearance notice and is scheduled to appear in court in Peterborough on Nov. 24.
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