Bracebridge OPP charged a Huntsville resident with Impaired Driving on Monday night after he picked up a hitchhiker.
Police received an emergency call from a store employee at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, July 24 after a hitchhiker came into the store to report an impaired driver. The hitchhiker asked the store to call police about the impaired driver, who she just got a ride from on Muskoka Road 118 onto Monck Road in Bracebridge.
“[The] guy was wasted,” the hitchhiker told Muskoka411. “I took over driving and parked at Shoppers and ran into the store with the keys.”
Officers responded quickly to Shoppers Drug Mart in Bracebridge and located the driver who was subsequently arrested. Police have charged 49-year-old Jamie Howard of Huntsville with Impaired Driving and Over 80.
Howard will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on Sept. 5 to answer to his charges.
