NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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On Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 9 p.m. Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police officers received a report of a vehicle that had left the roadway on Manitoba Street near Lone Pine Drive and the driver walked away from it. Officers located the driver and as a result of their investigation, arrested and charged 55-year-old Wendell Connick of Muskoka Lakes Twp, ON with:
- Impaired operation CC 320.14(1)(a )
- Over 80 CC 320.14(1)(b)
- Possession of a schedule I substance (cocaine) CDSA 4(1)
- Fail to stop after accident CC 320.16(1)
He will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on April 7, 2020 to answer to his charges.
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, at 4:15 a.m. Bracebridge Ontario Provincial Police officers were dispatched to a single-vehicle collision on Muskoka Road 169 near East Black Lake Road in Muskoka Lakes Twp.
Officers attended and located the driver, asleep, and subsequently arrested and charged 24-year-old Talon Sandy of Moose Deer Point, ON with impaired operation CC 320.14(1)(a) and over 80 CC 320.14(1)(b).
He will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on June 2, 2020 to answer to his charges.
In all cases where a driver is charged with impaired driving, their driver's license is suspended for 90 days and their vehicle is impounded.
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