Wednesday, March 31, 2004

POLICE FIND BOTH BOOZE AND DRUGS
Batchawana, Ont.,

A member of the O.P.P. Traffic and Marine Unit, based out of the Sault Ste Marie Detachment, found a driver with a multitude of driving issues yesterday.

At about 4:30 p.m. an officer stopped a vehicle on Hwy 17 in the Batchawana area. The driver showed signs that he had been drinking so he was administered a roadside Breathalyzer. The officer noticed that the man had an open case of beer in the vehicle. A further search of the vehicle and the driver was conducted and the officer found 21 grams of cannabis.

The driver of the car was returned to the police station for a Breathalyzer test. At the end of the day, thirty-seven-year-old Glen Mearrow of Goulais River was issued a 12-hour drivers licence suspension, a ticket for having open liquor in his vehicle and a court date at the end of April for possession of drugs.