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Lanark County OPP has laid impaired driving charges in two separate incidents on the same day.
Around 3:45 p.m. on Sunday, October 12, officers stopped a vehicle on Highway 7 in Drummond-North Elmsley Township after receiving an alert from an Automatic Licence Plate Reader. Police say the driver, 38-year-old Cory Ennis of Perth, was arrested and taken to the Perth detachment for testing.
Ennis has been charged with multiple offences, including operation while impaired, operating an unsafe vehicle, driving without a licence, and having an open container of liquor.
Later that night, just after 11:30 p.m., officers conducting a RIDE program in Carleton Place arrested another driver after a roadside screening. Thirty-five-year-old John Charbonneau of Lanark Highlands Township is charged with operating a vehicle while impaired with a blood alcohol concentration over the legal limit.
Both drivers were released and are scheduled to appear in court in Perth in November. Each had their licence suspended for 90 days and their vehicle impounded for seven days.
