Spotted by aerial patrol and then picked up by Peterborough OPP Wednesday
Aug 14, 2009 - 02:42 PM
CAVAN -- A Durham Regional Police cruiser has been impounded after a 10-year veteran of the police force was charged with stunt driving Wednesday.
Ontario Provincial Police were conducting aerial traffic enforcement in Peterborough County around 5:30 p.m. on Hwy. 115 in the Cavan area when a car was seen travelling at a high rate of speed.
The car was subsequently stopped by a Peterborough County OPP officer, who found the car was an unmarked police vehicle registered to the Durham Regional Police Service.
The OPP have impounded the vehicle for seven days and a 34-year-old man, a 10-year veteran of Durham police, has had his licence suspended for the same period of time. He's been charged with racing a motor vehicle and is to appear in Peterborough court Sept. 14.
Provincial police have not released the officer's name, and a spokesman for Durham police could not be immediately reached for comment.
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