NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
**********************
BLIND RIVER - On Aug. 3, 2017, shortly after 1:30 p.m., members from the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint involving a vehicle that had just left a local gas station in the Town of Blind River.
Police located the vehicle on Highway 17 east of Blind River and initiated a traffic stop. When speaking to the male driver, officers determined the driver had been consuming alcohol.
As a result of the investigation, Kevin Checkley, 44 years of age from Collingwood, Ont., was charged with:
- Driving while ability impaired - motor vehicle, contrary to section 253(1)(a) of the Criminal Code (CC); and with
- Driving with more than 80 milligrams of alcohol in blood, contrary to section 253(1)(b) of the CC.
The accused is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Blind River on Aug. 31, 2017.
**********************