{"id":26975,"date":"2019-12-26T08:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=26975"},"modified":"2019-12-26T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:39:15","slug":"se-opp-wawa-driver-charged-with-operation-while-impaired-after-failing-to-lower-high-beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/26\/se-opp-wawa-driver-charged-with-operation-while-impaired-after-failing-to-lower-high-beams\/","title":{"rendered":"SE OPP Wawa &#8211; Driver charged with Operation while Impaired after failing to lower high beams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 23, 2019, at approximately 10:30 p.m., a member of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was conducting traffic enforcement on Highway 17 in Bailloquet Township, Ontario.\u00a0Police crossed paths with a southbound motor vehicle and the driver failed to lower the high beams.<\/p>\n<p>Police conducted a traffic stop and detected the odour of cannabis emanating from the vehicle.\u00a0Officers conducted a Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST) roadside and the driver failed.\u00a0The driver was subsequently transported to the Wawa OPP Detachment for examination by a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, Menaab AMANUEL, 24 years of age, from Scarborough, Ontario, was charged with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operation while impaired &#8211; blood drug concentration, contrary to section 320.14(1)(c) of the Criminal Code (CC),<\/li>\n<li>Drive vehicle or boat with cannabis readily available, contrary to section 12(1) of the Cannabis Control Act (CCA),<\/li>\n<li>Fail to use lower beam &#8211; oncoming, contrary to section 168(a) of the Highway Traffic Act (HTA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The driver was issued a 90-day Automatic Driver&#8217;s Licence Suspension (ADLS), and the vehicle was impounded for 7 days.<\/p>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on February 10, 2019, in Wawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP remind motorists that no amount of alcohol or drug is safe to consume and then drive.\u00a0Report impaired drivers.\u00a0Should you observe a suspected impaired driver, please dial 911 or contact the Ontario Provincial Police at 1-888-310-1122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 23, 2019, at approximately 10:30 p.m., a member of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was conducting traffic enforcement on Highway 17 in Bailloquet &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-26975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-se-opp-wawa"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:25:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26976,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26975\/revisions\/26976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}