A 17-year-old male youth has been charged by members of the Estevan Police Service with uttering threats. The charges stem from an incident in or around March 4.
The youth was taken into custody and faced two separate charges of uttering the threats and one charge of mischief due to the fact he inflicted some damage to property around that same time. The youth has also been charged with being in breach of probation conditions.
On March 5, EPS members arrested a 39-year-old man for breaching a conditional sentence order. He was scheduled to appear in court the next day.
On March 6, EPS members rendered assistance to a semi tractor/trailer unit whose driver attempted to enter the city with a load that was too high to navigate the rail underpass. Police provided traffic control while the semi driver backed the unit up the hill and onto a bypass road. Police provided an escort for the unit around the city to its destination.
A report of a second theft in the city on March 5 that resulted in some money being taken from a local premises, was being investigated by police who said they had a suspect in their investigative sights.
A complaint of an assault that apparently occurred on the night of March 5 is under investigation by EPS with charges pending.
A dispute over property within a residence led to police intervention on March 6. The EPS members provided assurances that peace would be maintained while one party retrieved their property at the residence.
Police were asked to provide assistance to a semi driver for the second time in two days when they were called to an accident scene on Kensington Avenue where a trucker had lost a load of pipe on the road. With the assistance of nearby Baxters Transport equipment and personnel, the issue and road was cleared up quickly.
When police conducted a routine roadside stop on the night of March 7 near a north side lounge they ended up arresting two men for possession of marijuana. Police believed the driver was impaired, so he was transported to the EPS station to obtain samples of his breath for a breathalyzer test. The man failed to provide proper samples.
Both men were subsequently charged with possessing a controlled substance and the driver was charged with driving while impaired and refusing to provide a breath sample.
That same evening, EPS members checked another vehicle that was leaving a north side lounge and the driver failed a roadside test and another test back at the police station, so he was charged with impaired driving and driving while his blood-alcohol level was above .08 per cent.
On the night of March 8, EPS members stopped a vehicle that was being driven in the central part of the city. Upon further checks, police discovered the operator of the vehicle had a suspended driver's licence so he was charged accordingly. The driver did pass a roadside breathalyzer screening test, but further investigation revealed he had two outstanding warrants for his arrest for driving while disqualified so the vehicle was seized and impounded and the man taken into custody while his passenger was sent home in a taxi. As police continued their search of the vehicle they located some cocaine so charged him with that offence as well and as they continue their work, police note they may be laying charges of cocaine possession against the male passenger as well.
