{"id":67261,"date":"2024-05-27T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=67261"},"modified":"2024-05-27T00:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:29:33","slug":"ssm-opp-michigan-driver-charged-with-impaired-and-other-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/ssm-opp-michigan-driver-charged-with-impaired-and-other-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM OPP &#8211; Michigan Driver Charged with Impaired and other Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>While in the care of Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services and intoxicated individual leaves their care and drives away in a pick-up truck.<\/p>\n<p>On May 20, 2024, shortly after 6:30 p.m., the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a request for assistance from the Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services regarding a highly intoxicated person who needed to be transported to hospital in Sault Ste Marie.\u00a0The intoxicated person then leaves the care of the paramedics in a pick-up truck from Harmony Beach Road in Goulais Township.<\/p>\n<p>OPP located the pick-up truck on Highway 17 in Aweres Township travelling southbound towards Sault Ste Marie and attempted a traffic stop however the vehicle failed to stop for police.<\/p>\n<p>Police observed the pick-up truck intentionally swerve towards an oncoming marked police cruiser with it&#8217;s emergency lights activated which was parked on the far east side of the highway and was waiting to assist.<\/p>\n<p>The pick-up truck then pulled into a gas station. While speaking to the driver officers determined the driver had consumed alcohol.\u00a0The driver was arrested and transported to Sault Area Hospital for an assessment.<\/p>\n<p>On May 21, 2024, at approximately 3:00 a.m., the accused was release from hospital and once at Sault Ste Marie OPP detachment was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Lionel CARTWRIGHT, 42 years-of-age from Norway, Michigan was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dangerous operation<\/li>\n<li>Failure or refusal to comply with demand<\/li>\n<li>Flight from peace officer<\/li>\n<li>Operation while impaired-alcohol and drugs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Sault Ste Marie on June 24, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The pick-up truck was towed and impounded for seven days with the driver being issued a 90-day Administrative Drivers Licence Suspension.<\/p>\n<p>If you suspect and impaired driver &#8220;MAKE THE CALL&#8221; call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in the care of Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services and intoxicated individual leaves their care and drives away in a pick-up truck. On May 20, 2024, shortly after 6:30 p.m., the Sault Ste Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a request for assistance from the Sault Ste Marie Paramedic Services regarding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 15:33:45","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\/67261","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67262,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67261\/revisions\/67262"}],"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=67261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}