NEWS RELEASE
YORK REGIONAL POLICE
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Over the past week, 16 impaired drivers were removed from York Region roads and charged with criminal driving offences.
We are reminding drivers that York Regional Police conducts RIDE spot checks year-round and that our officers are always watching for suspected impaired drivers. We also continue to encourage citizens to call 9-1-1 if you spot a suspected impaired driver.
On Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, just before 3 a.m., an officer on general patrol in the Town of Newmarket spotted an occupied pick-up truck parked in a lot in the area of Doug Duncan Drive and Cedar Street.
The driver was asleep and awoken by the officer. After spotting empty beer cans and seeing signs that the driver was intoxicated, he was given a roadside breath test.
During the test the driver became enraged and slammed his fist onto the hood of the police cruiser causing damage, the driver was placed under arrest and transported to #1 District Headquarters for a breath test, where he blew more than twice the legal limit of alcohol.
Charged:
- Matthew Watkins, 39, Town of Newmarket
Charges:
- Care and Control Over 80
- Mischief Under $5,000
A list of all the drivers charged with impaired-related criminal driving offences from Jan. 7 to Jan. 14, 2019, is below.
The legal consequences of an impaired driving charge can include roadside vehicle impoundment and automatic driver’s licence suspension, as well as further consequences imposed by the courts, including longer licence suspensions, large fines and in some cases, jail time.
York Regional Police thanks members of the community for helping us stop and arrest impaired drivers by calling 9-1-1 through the Safe Roads...Your Call program. We consider these incidents a life-threatening crime in progress and will continue to respond to these calls.
We’re not giving up.
16 drivers charged with impaired-related criminal driving offences – Jan. 7 to 14
- Ronald Edwards, 55, Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville
- Impaired operation
- 80 plus
- Operation while prohibited
- Kristina Malychevskaia, 36, City of Vaughan
- Impaired operation
- 80 plus
- Shengwo Qu, 24, City of Toronto
- 80 plus
- Yaw Boateng, 35, City of London
- Impaired operation
- Bruce Barrieau, 47, City of Toronto
- 80 plus
- Park Hui, 31, City of Markham
- 80 plus
- Magdi Iskander, 65, City of Markham
- Refuse
- Valery Skotarenko, 64, Town of East Gwillimbury
- 80 plus
- Michael Sadomski, 39, City of Vaughan
- Impaired operation
- 80 plus
- Dangerous operation
- Stephen Davies, 59, Town of Bradford
- Impaired operation
- 80 plus
- Nikola Stojanovic, 23, City of Toronto
- Impaired operation
- 80 plus
- Matthew Watkins, 39, Town of Newmarket
- Care and control over 80
- Mischief
- Ann Mazelow, 36, City of Markham
- Impaired operation
- Derrick Lewis, 34, Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville
- Impaired operation
- 80 plus
- Alexandru Bartha, 71, Northumberland County
- Refuse
- Andre Mckie, 31, Town of Oakville
- Refuse
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