Impaired driver stole vehicle, then smashed it, Manitoulin OPP say

An 18-year-old resident of Sagamok First Nation has been charged following an incident Sept. 23.
Ontario Provincial Police were called shortly before 3 a.m. about a vehicle being taken without consent.
“Police were able to identify the person who took the vehicle, which had been involved in a single-vehicle motor vehicle collision,” OPP said in a news release Tuesday.
“The driver had consumed alcoholic beverages.”
The suspect is charged with impaired driving, driving after sundown while being a novice driver, drinking while under age 19 and failing to report an accident.
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The accused was released from custody and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Espanola on Nov. 6.
The driver was issued a 90-day driver's licence suspension and the vehicle was impounded for seven days.
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