NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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Over the weekend the Orillia Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were busy with drivers driving while impaired in the Orillia OPP detachment area.
On Oct. 12, 2018 approximately 8:25 p.m. officers were dispatched to a single motor vehicle collision on Highway 400. When officers arrived a brief investigation was conducted. As a result Joseph Catalano, age 33, of Cobourg was arrested and charged with Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle.
On Oct. 12, 2018 at approximately 10:10 p.m. Orillia OPP members were on patrol when a male who was wanted for impaired driving offences was observed driving. A traffic stop was conducted and the male was observed to be showing the usual signs of impairment.
As a result, 45-year-old, Sandu Gurnam or Orillia was arrested for Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle, Over 80 Milligrams Blood/Alcohol and Breach of Officer in Charge Undertaking.
On Oct. 13, 2018 at approximately 12:35 a.m. Orillia OPP member observed a motor vehicle driving erratically on Highway 12 in Ramara Township. A traffic stop was conducted and, 34-year-old, Brock Stonefish from Moravian First Nation was arrested and charged with Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle and Over 80 Milligrams Blood/Alcohol.
On Oct. 15, 2018 the Orillia OPP were conducting Radar enforcement on Highway 11 when a vehicle was stopped for a Highway Traffic Act violation. As a result the driver Gordon Coutts of Barrie was charged with Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle, Over 80 milligrams Blood/Alcohol and Speeding.
All the above mention persons were released on a Promise to Appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Orillia on Oct. 30, 2018.
On Oct. 14, 2018 at approximately 1:30 a.m. Orillia OPP received a complaint of an erratic driver on Highway 11. Police found the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop. The driver 40-year-old Nathan Campbell of Barrie was determined to be driving under the influence of drugs.
The driver was subsequently charged with Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle and Possession of a Schedule I and II Substance. The accused was release on a Promise to Appear for Nov. 5, 2018 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Barrie.
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