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Transport driver passing through North Bay charged with impaired driving

The North Bay OPP has arrested and charged the operator of a transport hauling two commercial trailers with impaired driving.

Monday afternoon, officers from the North Bay Detachment responded to the complaint of a possible impaired driver stopped at the weigh station scale in North Bay.

Officers attended and began an investigation, finding the suspect had been driving a commercial motor vehicle. Standard field sobriety tests were conducted and the driver was subsequently arrested for impaired driving.

More tests were completed at the North Bay OPP Detachment by a Drug Recognition Expert and, as a result of the police investigation, a 52-year-old Armstrong Township, Ontario, man has been charged with Operation While Impaired – Blood Drug Concentration.

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The accused has been issued a 90-day automatic driver’s licence suspension and the truck was impounded for seven days.

He was released on a promise to appear and is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in North Bay on February 5.

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