(CRAMAHE TWP, ON) –On April 24, 2015 at approximately 6:30pm Northumberland Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a complaint of a possible impaired driver in the Morganston area. An officer located the unplated, older style SUV travelling on Pinegrove Rd weaving on the road. The officer activated his emergency lights and the vehicle stopped. When the officer began to engage the driver, he drove off through a farm laneway then onto two individual properties causing damage to gardens, trees and a septic bed.
The officer eventually blocked his way and arrested the driver for impaired driving. A subsequent check of the vehicle revealed several empty and full cans of beer. He was taken to the Campbellford detachment for further tests.
The driver’s subsequent breath tests resulted within the ‘warn range’ which comes with a three day driver’s licence suspension. But as a result of his attempt to evade police, Jack AUDENAERT age 41 of Castleton faces the following criminal charges:
1) Flight from police
2) Mischief Under $5,000 (two counts)
He was released and is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Cobourg on May 20, 2015.