(THAMES CENTRE, ON) – At approximately 4:01 a.m. on December 1, 2016, the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) observed a possible impaired driver travelling southbound on Dorchester Road.
A motor vehicle stop of the Ford sport utility vehicle (SUV) was conducted near the Highway 401 overpass. Officers determined that the 21-year-old male driver had been drinking alcohol. He was placed under arrest, and transported to a Middlesex County OPP detachment for breath testing.
As a result of the police investigation, Mitchell ROWSE, from Thames Centre, Ontario, has been charged with driving while ability impaired – motor vehicle (alcohol and drug), 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 scheduled to answer the charges in a London court on January 11, 2017.