A southern Ontario resident has been charged for allegedly impersonating a peace officer throughout a towing incident in northwestern Ontario earlier this yr.
At about 11:30 p.m. on April 26, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers responded to a motorized vehicle crash collision on Freeway 17 within the Metropolis of Machin.
“Through the investigation, it was learned that the towing company attending the scene was not the towing company dispatched by police,” reads the OPP information launch.
Upon additional investigation, members of the Dryden OPP detachment decided that the attending towing firm impersonated legislation enforcement as a way to be dispatched to the scene as an alternative of the unique towing firm police dispatched.
Because of this, a 41-year-old man from Mississauga has now been charged with personating a peace officer.
The accused is scheduled to seem earlier than the Ontario Courtroom of Justice in Dryden on Jan. 20.
