Man arrested for fleeing police checkstop

Pictou County RCMP have arrested a man who allegedly fled a checkstop last month in Alma.  The 18-year-old faces dangerous driving, driving while suspended, fleeing police and assaulting an officer after one was dragged by a vehicle.  He’s due back in court May 1st.

Amherst Point incident

24 year old Charles Hicks of Cambridge Court in Amherst, was fined 13 hundred dollars and banned from driving for a year after pleading guilty of driving with a blood-alcohol concentration over .08 per cent.

The incident occurred on January 6th in Amherst Point.