Traffic enforcement
There was a considerable amount of traffic through the 100 Mile House area over the Victoria Day long weekend and both 100 Mile Detachment personnel and Cariboo-Chilcotin Traffic Services were conducting traffic enforcement throughout the area.
A total of 44 warnings and 46 tickets were handed out to drivers for a variety of offences.
Boaters fined
There was also a presence on the water over the long weekend with patrols being conducted on both Bridge and Deka lakes.
A total of 16 vessels were checked on both lakes and three fines were issued for major contraventions of the Canada Shipping Act.
Drinking driver
On May 12, Cariboo-Chilcotin Traffic Services members were conducting enforcement in the Lac la Hache area and the driver of a red Jeep was observed to not be wearing his seat belt.
When the driver was spoken to, he displayed symptoms of liquor consumption.
An approved screening device was administered at the scene, and the result of that test was a fail. A second test was requested and the result of that test was also a fail.
The driver met the established criteria and he was subsequently issued a 90-day immediate roadside driving prohibition. His vehicle was towed and impounded for 30 days.
Parking altercation
On May 12, 100 Mile RCMP were dispatched to a report of a fight in the 6000 block of Highway 24 in Lone Butte.
An argument had erupted between the driver of a vehicle who had stopped on private property and the landowner. The argument then became a physical altercation. The parties ended up separating and the male in the truck departed the scene.
The investigation into this incident is continuing and a charge of assault is being recommended to Crown against a 64-year-old Williams Lake man.