NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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On April 22, members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were on patrol duties in Elliot Lake.
Shortly after 11:30 p.m., the automatic licence plate recognition reader in the officer's cruiser alerted them of an unlicensed driver associated with a red pickup truck. A traffic stop was initiated as the red pickup truck pulled into a driveway on Hillside Drive South. A query was conducted on the driver, and they were found to be in breach of several conditions of the release order, as well as giving a false name.
As a result, Christian Cormier, 37 from Spragge, was arrested and charged with:
- Personation with intent to avoid arrest, prosecuting or obstructing justice
- Failing to comply with release order - other than to attend court (three counts)
- Driving while under suspension
- Driving a motor vehicle without a permit
- Failing to have insurance card
The accused appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice Video Bail Court in Blind River on April 23.
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