NEWS RELEASE
GUELPH POLICE SERVICE
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TOWNSHIP OF CENTRE WELLINGTON - On June 21, 2019 at approximately 1 a.m., a Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer was on general patrol in the Village of Elora when he observed and heard the driver of a pickup truck do a loud 'burnout' while travelling southbound on Metcalfe Street.
Police conducted a traffic stop and deemed the vehicle to be unfit when the driver was unable to provide proof of valid insurance or a safety certificate for the recently purchased vehicle. Further investigation revealed that the plates were not registered to the vehicle.
Twenty-one-year-old Jordan Belanger Herwynen of Guelph-Eramosa Township has been charged with operate motor vehicle on highway - no insurance, unnecessary noise, operate unsafe vehicle and use plates not authorized contrary to the Highway Traffic Act and is scheduled to appear in Guelph Provincial Offences Court on Sept. 4, 2019.
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