An incident that involved an act of indecent exposure in mid-August is now finding its way to the courtroom.
Estevan Police Service issued a statement this past week, indicating that a man had walked into an Estevan business on the northeast side of the city in the middle of the afternoon last summer and proceeded to expose himself to a female employee.
Following the event, EPS personnel set up an investigation that ultimately led to an arrest and charges being laid on Nov. 13.
As a result of this investigation, the 35-year-old male was charged with committing an indecent act and was then released pending a future court date in Estevan.
On Nov. 14, EPS members spent several busy hours engaged in routine vehicle checks during the evening shift with nine of them resulting in arrests or summary offence tickets.
During one of the stops, police arrested and charged a man for being in breach of court-ordered conditions related to his release. In another incident, a 57-year-old driver was charged with driving while impaired and driving while his blood-alcohol level was over .08 per cent. He now has a January 2015 court date. Other liquor-related stops resulted in three-day suspensions being imposed on drivers while another arrest was related to a 17-year-old marijuana user who was charged with being in possession of under 30 grams of the controlled substance.
During the evening of Nov. 13 or early morning hours of Nov. 14, police stopped a vehicle they observed coming off a back road on the east side of the city. A man and woman were arrested when police discovered more than two pounds of marijuana in the vehicle. The 23-year-old male driver was charged with being in possession for the purpose of trafficking marijuana and was later released after being given a January court date. The female was released without any charges.
On the night of Nov. 17, EPS members were called to a residential area in the north central area of the city to check into a person possibly engaged in suspicious activity. Police made a patrol of the area but were unable to locate any suspicious person or evidence of suspicious activity.
That same evening, police received a complaint regarding an erratic driver on the west side of the city. Police were able to locate the vehicle in question with the male driver being arrested and charged with impaired driving and driving while over .08. He will answer to the charges during a January court visit.
