KAWARTHA LAKES-Kawartha Lakes Police have charged a 38-year-old Lindsay man with a number of driving offences after he was found to be driving a vehicle while under a lifetime driving ban and was found to have the wrong licence plates attached.
On Friday, July 21st, 2017 at 11:30 am a KLPS officer on patrol says he saw a 2003 Chevy pickup being operated on Adelaide Street North. A police check revealed that the licence plates attached to the truck were allegedly not registered to it and when the officer stopped the vehicle, it was learned that the driver was suspended from driving for life under the Criminal Code for a conviction of impaired driving. He was also suspended several times under the Highway Traffic Act according to police.
Christopher William Hughes of Lindsay is charged with Driving while Disqualified under the Criminal Code and a number of other offences under the Highway Traffic Act.
He will appear in the Lindsay, Ontario Court of Justice on Thursday, August 24th, 2017.
The vehicle that was being operated by Hughes was impounded for 45 days.
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