(MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ON) – On May 22, 2017, at approximately 8:01 p.m., the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducted a traffic stop of a motor vehicle on Thames Street.
Officers determined that the 54-year-old male driver of the grey Ford pickup truck 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 three times the legal limit of alcohol.
As a result of the police investigation, Richard FERRIS, from Middlesex 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 on a Promise to Appear (PTA) and is scheduled to answer the charges in a London court on June 20, 2017.
