{"id":492047,"date":"2026-02-22T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492047\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:58:11","slug":"police-find-impaired-driver-on-muskoka-road-south-in-gravenhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492047\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Find Impaired Driver On Muskoka Road South In Gravenhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muskoka411.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/opp-drive-sober-2024.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/opp-drive-sober-2024-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"opp drive sober 2024\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ql-align-justify\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Bracebridge Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged another driver with impaired driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_ql-align-justify\">On Friday, February 20, 2026 just before 11:00 p.m., a Bracebridge OPP officer who was on patrol in the town of Gravenhurst, observed a vehicle on Muskoka Road South in the town of Gravenhurst that was concerning. The officer conducted an investigation and subsequently arrested and charged 31-year-old Alex Thomson of Cambridge with Impaired Operation \u2013 Over 80. He will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on April 7, 2026 to answer to his charge.<\/p>\n<p>If you suspect someone is driving a vehicle of any kind while impaired, please call 9-1-1. Police will make every effort to locate the involved vehicle and conduct an investigation, many times, these investigations result in charges and removing impaired drivers from Muskoka roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bracebridge Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged another driver with impaired driving. On Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,197559,48273,44,29679],"class_list":{"0":"post-492047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gravenhurst","11":"tag-muskoka","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-opp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}