{"id":75258,"date":"2025-07-11T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=75258"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:43:37","slug":"east-algoma-opp-officers-lay-27th-impaired-drivng-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/east-algoma-opp-officers-lay-27th-impaired-drivng-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"East Algoma OPP &#8211; Officers Lay 27th Impaired Drivng Charge"},"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 Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at approximately 8:30 a.m., members of the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint involving a red car travelling eastbound on Highway 17 within the Town of Thessalon. The vehicle was reported to be weaving in and out of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>While stopped in a construction zone, the driver of the red car was observed waving a baseball bat out of the window and smoking from a pipe. Police located the vehicle near Melwel Road and conducted a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>Upon speaking with the driver, officers determined that the individual was impaired by an intoxicating substance. The driver was arrested and transported to the Blind River Detachment for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>David VIOLETTE, 55 years old from Campbell River, BC was charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operation while impaired &#8211; drug<\/li>\n<li>Drive vehicle with cannabis readily available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Elliot Lake on September 4, 2025.\u00a0The accused was issued a 90-day Administrative Drivers Licence Suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The OPP remains committed to ensuring our roads are safe from drug-impaired and alcohol-impaired drivers. Drivers who are impaired by drugs or alcohol continue to pose a significant threat on Ontario roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at approximately 8:30 a.m., members of the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint involving a red car travelling eastbound on Highway 17 within the Town of Thessalon. The vehicle was reported to be weaving in and out of traffic. While stopped in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 12:08:47","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\/75258","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=75258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75260,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258\/revisions\/75260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}