{"id":490448,"date":"2026-01-03T23:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:02:08","slug":"atv-driver-arrested-after-opp-says-he-tried-to-evade-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490448\/","title":{"rendered":"ATV driver arrested after OPP says he tried to evade police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thessalon man faces multiple charges after Friday night stop on Highways 17 and 129 <\/p>\n<p>A 41-year-old Thessalon man is facing multiple charges after the East Algoma OPP say they pulled over an ATV that was attempting to avoid police.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred last night at approximately 8 p.m. near\u00a0Highway 17 and Highway 129.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Turcotte, 41, is charged with:<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Operation while prohibited under the Criminal Code &#8211; five counts<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Failure to comply with release order &#8211; other than to attend court<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Driving while under suspension<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Drive non-passenger ATV with a passenger &#8211; two counts<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Fail to drive in same direction as traffic<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was scheduled to appear in bail court today.<\/p>\n<p>None of the allegations have been tested in court and Turcotte is presumed innocent until proven guilty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thessalon man faces multiple charges after Friday night stop on Highways 17 and 129 A 41-year-old Thessalon man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,221207],"class_list":{"0":"post-490448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-opparresthighway-17thessalon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115833664473156510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490448","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=490448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}