(THAMES CENTRE, ON) – On June 30, 2016, at approximately 2:15 a.m., the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were alerted to a possible impaired driver at a commercial retail property in the 3000 block of Dorchester Road.
Officers located the motor vehicle, a black Ford pickup truck, and determined the 49-year-old male driver had been drinking alcohol. He was placed under arrest, and transported to a Middlesex County OPP detachment for breath tests, which revealed he had consumed more than twice the legal limit of alcohol.
As a result of the police investigation, James ASTIN, from Thames Centre, Ontario, has been charged with driving while ability impaired – motor vehicle, and driving with more than 80 mgs of alcohol in blood, contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada.
The accused was released from police custody by way of a Promise to Appear (PTA), and is scheduled to answer the charges in a London court on August 8, 2016.