{"id":72545,"date":"2025-03-03T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=72545"},"modified":"2025-03-10T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:48:26","slug":"east-algoma-opp-9th-impaired-charge-of-the-year-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/east-algoma-opp-9th-impaired-charge-of-the-year-laid\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; 9th Impaired charge of the year laid"},"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>On February 28, 2025, at approximately 11:45 p.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint regarding a white pickup truck driving erratically westbound on Highway 17. The vehicle was reported to have crossed into oncoming traffic before pulling into a local gas station at the east end of Causley Street in the Town of Blind River.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the location and observed the vehicle with the driver seated in the driver&#8217;s seat. Next to the driver, on the passenger seat, was a container containing suspected cannabis. Believing the driver to be impaired by drugs, police arrested the individual. The driver was then transported to the Blind River detachment for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>Colin LIDDIARD, 52 years-of-age from Sault Ste Marie was charged with: Operation while impaired &#8211; drugs<\/p>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Elliot Lake on Aprill 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was issued a 90-day Administrative Driver&#8217;s Licence Suspension, and the vehicle was impounded for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP has highly trained Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE) officers who are skilled in the detection and investigation of drug impaired drivers. Should you observe a suspected impaired driver, don&#8217;t hesitate to &#8220;MAKE THE CALL&#8221; and dial 911. Your phone call could save someone&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 28, 2025, at approximately 11:45 p.m., members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint regarding a white pickup truck driving erratically westbound on Highway 17. The vehicle was reported to have crossed into oncoming traffic before pulling into a local gas station at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 05:24:55","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\/72545","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=72545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72546,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72545\/revisions\/72546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}