SUDBURY -- A 30-year-old Sudbury man has been charged with impaired driving after he was caught in a roadside spot check early Wednesday morning on Regent Street.
Not only did the man have more than the legal amount of alcohol in his bloodstream, but police said he had open liquor in his vehicle.
The Sudbury detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police were conducting a Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) spot check on Regent at the Highway 69 interchange at 2:05 a.m. when they saw his vehicle.
"Officers approached a northbound vehicle at the spot check and detected the odour of alcohol coming from the driver's breath," police said in a news release Thursday. "The driver subsequently provided a breath sample and registered a fail. The individual was arrested and taken to the Sudbury OPP detachment for further testing. Officers seized opened liquor found in the vehicle."
The man is charged with impaired driving and driving with more than the legal amount of alcohol in his bloodstream. He was released on an appearance notice and is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice on Nov. 18 in Sudbury.
He was also issued a 90-day driver's licence suspension and the vehicle was impounded for seven days.
The charge marks the 53rd person charged with impaired driving in the Nipissing West detachment area in 2020.
