Alleged impaired, prohibited driver in unlicenced vehicle taken off road

KELOWNA – Police were looking for speeders in Glenmore early Friday morning but found much more than that when an officer stopped an unlicenced Dodge Durango "driving very slowly" through the area.

The 48-year-old man driving had four criminal code driving prohibitions and a suspended licenced. The officer who stopped him before 9 a.m., May 25, near Watson Road and Yates Road was also a Drug Recognition Expert, trained to determine if someone is under the influence of drugs, according to a release by RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jesse O'Donaghey. 

"It didn’t take long for the officer… to recognize that the driver was displaying symptomology roadside of suspected drug impairment,” O’Donaghey says. “The driver, who was unable to complete standardized field sobriety testing roadside, was detained for impaired driving.”

The man was taken to the detachment to complete a Drug Influence Evaluation and now faces additional potential criminal charges. He was issued another prohibition from driving and later released. He is due in court Oct. 11, 2018.

Anyone with any additional information is asked to contact the Kelowna RCMP Municipal Traffic Section at 250-762-3300.

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