(MANITOWANING, ON) – In the early morning hours of December 4, 2016, members of the Manitoulin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were conducting a R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) check on Cardwell St., in Manitowaning, Ontario when a sport utility vehicle (SUV) approached the location. An officer spoke with the driver and determined he had consumed alcohol.
As a result of this investigation, Allan Leon JACKSON, age 55 of Wikwemikong First Nation, Ontario has been charged with Impaired Driving, and exceeding the legal limit of alcohol in his blood contrary to section 253(1)(a) & 253(1)(b) of the Criminal Code of Canada.
The accused is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Gore Bay on January 17, 2017.
The OPP is reminding motorists that there is no safe amount of alcohol consumption when driving. Anyone who suspects a driver is driving while impaired is urged to call police by dialing 9-1-1 immediately.