Police Briefs – Tuesday, July 28, 2015
A man on the Chatham-Kent Police Most Wanted List has turned himself in.
A warrant was issued for the 46-year-old after he allegedly pushed his girlfriend off a chair and broke a toilet handle in her home back in June.
He turned himself in to police this morning and has been charged with assault and mischief.
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A 60-year-old Chatham man has been arrested after officers found him drunk in Blenheim.
Police say the man, bound by conditions of his probation to not consume alcohol , was found intoxicated on Marlborough St. yesterday afternoon.
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Police are thanking a citizen who called and reported a possible impaired driver on Keil Drive in Chatham.
Officers stopped the vehicle on Bloomfield Rd near Richmond St. just before 9pm last night.
The driver was taken to the OPP detachment for breath tests and his vehicle was towed from the scene.
The 66-year-old man from Dover Township was charged with impaired driving.
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13 vehicles were given speeding tickets during traffic enforcement yesterday morning on Talbot Trail near Erieau Rd, and on Victoria St. in Thamesville.
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$8,500 worth of tools were stolen from a contractor’s trailer parked on Burk Line in Harwich Township.
Police say the tools were take sometime between July 25 and the 27.
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A 25-year-old Blenheim woman has been charged with careless driving following a three-vehicle crash.
Police say no one was hurt in the crash, which happened on Richmond St. near Keil Dr. in Chatham just after 5pm yesterday.
Damage is pegged at $10,000.