(CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES, ON.) – On Sunday June 23, 2014 in the evening hours an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was operating radar on Highway 35 south of the town of Lindsay. The officer captured a northbound vehicle in his radar doing 112 kilometres an hour in a posted 80 kilometre per hour zone.
The officer from City of Kawartha Lakes Detachment of the OPP stopped the vehicle north of Mount Horeb Road. As a result of further investigation the driver was arrested for operating a motor vehicle with over 80 milligrams (mgs) of alcohol in 100 (ml) millilitres of blood. A search of the vehicle revealed a quantity of marihuana.
Rajiv KUMAR, 28 years of age, of Markham Ontario, is charged with impaired driving and driving with more than 80mgs of alcohol in 100ml of blood, contrary to the Criminal Code, possession of marihuana under 30grams contrary to the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act and speeding contrary to the Highway Traffic Act.
The accused will appear in court, in Lindsay, on July 24, 2014.