Man charged with ramming OPP cruiser acquitted

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Man charged with ramming OPP cruiser acquitted

Postby Thomas » Sat Aug 22, 2015 2:49 pm

Man charged with ramming OPP cruiser acquitted in Sarnia court

A two-day trial of a man charged with ramming an OPP cruiser, leaving an officer injured, ended with an acquittal in Sarnia court.

Cody Winston Price, 25, of Oil Springs had been charged with dangerous driving, failing to stop for police and assaulting a police officer.

On Sept. 9, 2014, two OPP officers were watching two intersecting gravel roads in Lambton County. Their surveillance was based on a tip that Price, wanted by police, would be driving on the roads in a dark-coloured pick-up truck.

At approximately 9 p.m. such a truck was seen and followed by one officer. The second officer blocked the road by putting his cruiser sideways on the road. The truck hit and smashed the driver's door of the cruiser and shattered the window. The last thing the officer saw was the truck's headlight coming into the cruiser.

The truck pushed the cruiser several metres along the road before reversing and fleeing the scene with both cruisers in a short pursuit.

The injured officer remains off work while undergoing rehabilitation.

Neither officer got a licence plate number for the truck amid the flying dust and gravel.

Price was subsequently arrested.

The key witness for the Crown was a woman alleged to have been in the truck during the collision.

The woman, an admitted long-time methamphetamine user, was a reluctant witness who refused to answer questions during the trial's first day, held on Tuesday.

On Wednesday she answered questions, but in a confusing manner that involved several varying versions of events, said Justice Jonathon George.

The woman's versions included being present when Price was driving, but also not being in Lambton County during the incident.

George said the threshold for conviction is more than the suspicion of guilt. The only evidence that Price was the driver came from the woman who was “outrageously unreliable,” the judge said in dismissing the charges.

http://www.theobserver.ca/2015/08/20/ma ... rnia-court
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