This past week alone officers of the Almaguin Highlands OPP Detachment arrested and charged three separate people for impaired driving, as well issued three, three-day driver's licence suspensions.
On Monday, September 7 at 3 a.m. officers arrived at a single motor vehicle collision which resulted in the driver, Ryan McKay, 42 of Perry Township being arrested and charged with failure or refusal to comply with a demand.
On Saturday September 11, at 7 p.m. officers arrested and charged Bradley Morris, 29, of North Bay with operation while impaired - alcohol and drug and operation while impaired - blood alcohol concentration (80 plus) after a motor vehicle crashed into a swamp on Expressway Road, Perry Twp.
On Sunday September 12, at 4:20 p.m. officers were patrolling on Forestry Tower Road, Kearney. They stopped several All-Terrain Vehicles and issued one rider a three-day driver's licence suspension for registering a "warn" on the roadside breathalyzer and a second driver, Devon McKinnon, 25 of Orangeville was arrested and charged with operation while impaired - blood alcohol concentration (80 plus).
Police also gave two other riders a three-day drivers licence suspension after registering a warn on the roadside breathalyzer this past weekend, one during a R.I.D.E. program and one from a traffic complaint.