Impaired driver charged

Ontario Provincial Police | Jul 01, 2020

(NORTHBROOK, ON) - On June 27, 2020 at approximately 8:30 p.m. officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of an erratic driver. The vehicle was southbound on Highway 41 North of Northbrook Ontario.  

Police were initiated a traffic stop on the same vehicle on Gun Club Road and the driver was subsequently arrested and transported to the detachment for further testing. As a result of the investigation, L&A County OPP have charged Richard SELMAN, age 30, of Picton, ON contrary to the Criminal Code with:

Operation while impaired - alcohol and drugs; and

Operating a motor vehicle while over legal blood alcohol limit.

The accused was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Greater Napanee on August 25, 2020. The accused's licence was suspended for 90 days and the vehicle was impounded for seven days.