SUDBURY -- After almost being involved in a head-on collision, a Sudbury woman was arrested by Manitoulin Island Ontario Provincial Police on Nov. 5 and faces drug and other charges.
The incident began in Espanola at 4:40 p.m. when the OPP, with the assistance of the Greater Sudbury Police Service and the Community Street Crime Unit, investigated a traffic complaint.
A witness saw a vehicle almost causing a head-on collision Highway 6.
"Police located the vehicle and conducted a roadside investigation," the OPP said in a news release. "It was determined that the driver was under the influence of a drug. Police learned the driver was also suspended from driving and was in breach of a probation order."
A search of the vehicle uncovered brass knuckles, a replica hand gun, drug paraphernalia, cash, suspected methamphetamine in tablet form, codeine pills, cocaine, crack cocaine, crystal meth, cannabis and fentanyl.
"The suspected drugs were processed with the assistance of the Community Street Crime Unit and had an estimated street value of $12, 816," police said.
The 38-year-old woman is now charged with dangerous driving, impaired driving, driving while suspended, weapons possession, carrying a concealed weapon, drug possession, trafficking, breaking probation orders, possession of property obtained by crime and driving while cannabis is readily available to the driver.
