KASHABOWIE — A 44-year-old Fort Frances man faces criminal charges and those under the Liquor Licence, Tobacco Tax, and Canada Shipping Acts after his boat was stopped on a Northwestern Ontario lake.
According to an Ontario Provincial Police media release issued on Friday, during a marine patrol on Kashabowie Lake on June 14, the man was stopped and charged with impaired operation of a vessel.
Police said he was also charged under the Liquor Licence Act with operating a boat with an open container of liquor and under the Tobacco Tax Act with possessing unmarked cigarettes.
According to police, he also faces a number of additional charges under the Canada Shipping Act’s small vessel regulations, including operating a boat without a life-jacket, operating without a licence and “proof of competency,” and operating a vessel with safety equipment that’s not in working order.
He’s scheduled to be in court in July.
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