(MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTH, ON) – Shortly before 2 a.m. on Sunday March 20, 2016, a Perth County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer on patrol observed a slow moving red Pontiac sedan driving eastbound in Main Street East in Listowel. The vehicle was pulled over and the female driver was spoken to.
The officer detected the odour of an alcoholic beverage on the driver’s breath and subsequently administered a roadside breath test on the driver which she failed. The driver was transported to the North Perth OPP Detachment where she failed two Intoxilyzer breath tests.
24-year-old Fauve Antoinette DENDEKKER of Huron East has been charged with the following Criminal Code of Canada offence; “driving with more than 80 mgs of alcohol in blood”. She is to appear in Listowel Criminal Court on April 13, 2016, to answer to the charge.
Her driver’s licence has been suspended for 90 days and her vehicle was impounded for a period of seven days as per statue.
This past weekend, Perth County OPP officers also ran five Reduce Impaired Drivers Everywhere (RIDE) programs, stopping large numbers of vehicles. They charged two individuals for having open liquor within a motor vehicle. One driver was stopped and was given a roadside breath test registering a blood alcohol concentration from .05 to .08 As a result of this reading his driver’s licence was seized and he was served a three day suspension notice.