Bracebridge OPP have laid criminal charges in five separate impaired driving investigations between March 16 and 23.
On March 16 at 5:15 p.m. officers responded to reports of a two-vehicle collision on Monck Road at Wellington Street in Bracebridge. An investigation into the cause of the collision commenced and police arrested and charged 32-year-old Liam Radford of Bracebridge with impaired operation - over 80. He is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on April 9.
On March 17 at 10 a.m. Bracebridge OPP responded to a traffic complaint about a possibly impaired driver and located the vehicle in the area of the Torrance Barrens in Muskoka Lakes Township. Officers subsequently arrested and charged 29-year-old Shannon Pren of Barrie with impaired 0peration - by drug. She is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on April 23.
Later the same day at 6:20 p.m. a member of the public called police to express their concerns about erratic driving on Highway 11 South in Bracebridge. Police located the vehicle a short time later and conducted a traffic stop. The driver, 54-year-old Troy Sylvester of Barrie was arrested and charged with operation while impaired. He is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on April 30.
On March 18 at 11:40 p.m. while officers were conducting a RIDE program in the area of Manitoba Street and Taylor Road in Bracebridge, officers stopped a vehicle and subsequently arrested and charged the driver, 28-year-old Hayleigh Barnes of Bracebridge, with operation while impaired and over 80. She is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on April 23.
On March 23 at 5:20 p.m. a member of the public called police to report their concern about a person who had left a commercial parking lot on Ferguson Road in Gravenhurst and then returned to the same parking lot. Bracebridge OPP officers attended and arrested and charged 46-year-old Victor Groves of Huntsville with operation while impaired and over 80. He is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on April 16.
None of the allegations have been tested in court and the accused are considered innocent unless proven guilty.
