James O’Leary charged with drinking & driving

CITY POLICE NEWS RELEASE ************************* Consuming over the legal limit Officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 38-year-old James O’Leary of 545 Black Road on the 19th of September at 4:55 a.m.

CITY POLICE

NEWS RELEASE

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Officers with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 38-year-old James O’Leary of 545 Black Road on the 19th of September at 4:55 a.m. on Second Line East and charged him with one count of consuming over the legal limit.

It is alleged that on the 19th of September at 4:47 a.m., officers received a call regarding a possible impaired driver that had struck a pole on the ramp meridian at Second Line East and Black Road.

When officers arrived, they found the driver to be under the influence of alcohol and his Dodge pickup heavily damaged with the air bag deployed.

The hydro pole was also heavily damaged.

When the accused was given the roadside breathalyzer, he failed and he was subsequently arrested.

He is to attend in court on the 18th of October.

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