Saguenay: drugged in a stolen vehicle

Three impaired drivers, one of them driving a stolen vehicle, kept Saguenay police officers busy overnight Wednesday through Thursday.

One of the individuals, a 36-year-old man, was intercepted on Talbot Boulevard in Chicoutimi at around 3:30 am.

The patrollers quickly understood that he was clearly “very affected by drugs”, according to Lieutenant Denis Harvey.

However, this is not the only offense that the suspect had to reproach himself with: the intervention enabled the police to ascertain that the vehicle in which he was found did not belong to him.

“He was driving a stolen vehicle a little earlier in the evening in Chicoutimi,” says Mr. Harvey. The individual in question underwent an assessment to clarify his condition.

Earlier that night, the police had already had to deal with two other offending motorists, who had twice as much alcohol in their blood than the law allows.

At 9:15 p.m., a report from the public led the police to stop a vehicle on the Price road in Chicoutimi. The 47-year-old driver failed the breathalyzer test; he had 160 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood, police said.

Then, at 11:30 p.m., the patrollers intercepted a 62-year-old man in rue Panet, in Jonquière. His blood alcohol level was 180 mg per 100 ml of blood.

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