DRYDEN — The OPP have arrested and charged a man for impaired driving after police say he was caught asleep for a prolonged time in his vehicle last Thursday.
Police received the report of a man sleeping in a parked and running vehicle on Highway 594 for over six hours at roughly 9:45 a.m., according to a media release issued by the OPP on Monday.
Officers on the scene determined that the driver was impaired and arrested the man, said police, before returning to the detachment where an officer with drug recognition expertise gave the opinion the driver was impaired by a drug, the police did not specify the type of drug in their media release.
As a result of the investigation, a 41-year-old man from Saskatchewan was charged with operation while impaired by alcohol and drugs.
The man has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court in Dryden in mid-September.
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