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A boat operator is facing impaired operation charges following the recovery of a man’s body from the Otonabee River near Peterborough, Ont., on Tuesday evening.
According to Peterborough County OPP, emergency crews were called out on Tuesday afternoon after someone reported that a person had fallen off a boat and hadn’t come back up in the river close to the Bensfort Bridge, just south of the city in Otonabee-South Monaghan Township.
“The caller advised that they had been travelling east on the river when another boat went by at which point one of the four individuals on the boat fell into the water,” OPP said. “The caller advised that the missing person was not wearing a life-jacket.”
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Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories. Police arrived and found three other individuals near the shoreline. Investigators later determined that they had been drinking alcohol. An officer asked the operator of the vessel for a breath sample using an approved screening device. The operator complied and was subsequently arrested and taken to the OPP detachment for further testing. Story continues below Township firefighters also sent their vessel out to help search for the missing individual. The OPP’s underwater search and recovery unit was called in. Around 9 p. m. that night, divers found a body of a 39-year-old man from Oshawa, Ont. A 28-year-old from Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ont., has been arrested and charged with operation causing death and operation while impaired with a blood-alcohol concentration over 80. OPP stated that the accused was held in custody pending a court appearance in Peterborough. & copy 2026 , a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.Source link
