NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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TOWNSHIP OF THE NORTH SHORE - On June 25, 2018, shortly after 7:30 p.m., members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Mississauga First Nation Police Service responded to a motorcycle (dirt bike) operator who was lost on an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) trail within the Township of the North Shore.
The male driver was somewhere east of Highway 108 and north of Highway 17. Officers were provided with several GPS coordinates received from the male driver's cell phone ping as the male would not stay in the same spot as directed by police.
OPP attended the area on ATVs and located the male in good health at 10:48 p.m. and transported him out of the bush.
As a result of the investigation, Kevin Mcleod, 26 years of age from Elliot Lake, Ontario was issued five provincial offence notices and charged with:
- Drive Motor Vehicle, No Plate, contrary to section 7(1)(b)(i) of the Highway Traffic Act (HTA);
- Drive Motor Vehicle-No Licence, contrary to section 32(1) of the HTA;
- Unlawfully Drive Off-Road Vehicle on Schedule A Highway, contrary to section 3 of the HTA Ontario Regulation 316/03;
- Not Properly Insured, contrary to section 17 of the HTA Ontario Regulation 316/03; and with
- Fail to Surrender Permit for Off-Road Vehicle, contrary to section 3(2) of the Off-Road Vehicle Act.
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