NEWS RELEASE
SAULT STE. MARIE POLICE SERVICE
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On May 17, 2020, officers with Patrol Services arrested 56-year-old Paul Ingram for impaired driving.
At 9:32 p.m., police received a call of a truck entering a parking lot in the 300 block of Lake Street at a high rate of speed, cutting off another vehicle, waving a gun at the complainant and leaving the area at a high rate of speed.
Officers located the vehicle at 9:45 p.m. on Second Line West and conducted a traffic stop. Due to the call about a potential gun, officers asked the accused to exit the vehicle, which he did and he was arrested. A subsequent search of the accused and the vehicle located an open container of alcohol on the passenger seat. No weapon was located in the vehicle.
Officers noted a smell of alcohol coming from the accused. He provided two breath samples into an approved device, both registered a fail result.
He is charged with impaired driving alcohol and drugs, and impaired driving blood alcohol concentration 80 plus.
He is scheduled to appear in court on June 22, 2020.
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