{"id":39839,"date":"2025-11-28T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/?p=39839"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:55:15","slug":"police-news-impaired-charge-laid-in-vehicle-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/2025\/11\/28\/police-news-impaired-charge-laid-in-vehicle-mix-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Police news: Impaired charge laid in vehicle mix-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>On Nov. 18 shortly after 3 p.m., Huronia West OPP responded to a report of a stolen vehicle in Creemore.<\/p>\n<p>Officers quickly located the vehicle nearby. An investigation revealed that the 59-year-old female driver had mistakenly taken a vehicle identical to her own, which was parked close by.<\/p>\n<p>During the interaction, officers entered into an impaired driving investigation.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the driver was charged with driving while impaired under the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n<h3>Tire deflation device deployed in police chase<\/h3>\n<p>Huronia West OPP has charged a driver with numerous criminal offences after attempting to flee police on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after noon, police received complaint about a pick-up truck driving dangerously throughout Clearview Township. An officer attempted to stop the pick-up truck on Superior Street, however the vehicle fled. Shortly after, the pick-up was intercepted on CountyRoad 10 and with the assistance of members of the Nottawasaga OPP, officers were able to safely stop the vehicle by deploying a tire deflation device. After a brief foot chase, officers took the driver into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Leavens, 31, of Wasaga Beach, was charged with: flight from a peace officer, dangerous operation, refusal to comply with demand, and operation while impaired.<\/p>\n<h3>School zones charges laid<\/h3>\n<p>Huronia West OPP conducted a traffic safety enforcement initiative throughout the detachment area on Nov. 26, with increased attention to school and community safety zones.<\/p>\n<p>During a 12-hour shift, officers charged 41 drivers with distracted driving, including 15 offences committed in a school zone while officers were monitoring a crosswalk as students made their way to school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 18 shortly after 3 p.m., Huronia West OPP responded to a report of a stolen vehicle in Creemore. Officers quickly located the vehicle nearby. An investigation revealed that the 59-year-old female driver had mistakenly taken a vehicle identical to her own, which was parked close by. During the interaction, officers entered into an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":31732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creemore.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}