{"id":489575,"date":"2026-01-03T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:10:11","slug":"ferry-ride-ends-in-cuffs-for-suspected-drunk-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489575\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Ride Ends in Cuffs for Suspected Drunk Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rcmp-police-stock-2-traffic-radio.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Ferry Ride Ends in Cuffs for Suspected Drunk Driver\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A man spotted by an off-duty RCMP officer on the Bell Island ferry early in the afternoon on New Year\u2019s Eve has been charged with drunk driving.<\/p>\n<p>The officer noticed that the 35-year-old had driven onto the ferry, but suspected that he was under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>He contacted RCMP who were waiting for the ferry on the Bell Island side, but the Torbay resident refused the breathalyzer.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but police noticed a radar detector in the vehicle, which is a charge under the Highway Traffic Act. Police seized the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A man spotted by an off-duty RCMP officer on the Bell Island ferry early in the afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-489575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115831572125902749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}