A Montreal driver is facing charges for allegedly driving impaired after he was stopped earlier this week at a border checkpoint before entering Ontario.
Members of the Hawkesbury OPP detachment said they were patrolling Highway 417 on Tuesday morning at approximately 7:50 a.m., enforcing border restrictions put in place at the start of the week to curb the spread of COVID-19 variants of concern in Ontario.
A car attempting to cross the border from Quebec to Ontario arrived at the checkpoint then.
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Officers suspected the driver was impaired, police said, and confirmed those suspicions with additional testing.
Montreal resident Maxime Levesque, 27, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired and with driving while cannabis was readily available.
The accused was released with a scheduled court appearance on Wednesday, May 12, in L’Original, Ont.
His licence was suspended for 90 days and his vehicle was towed and impounded.
