(NIPIGON, ON) - On July 18, 2018 at approximately 11:10 a.m. a member of the Greenstone Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) conducting commercial motor vehicle inspections in relation to Operation Safe Trucking stopped a commercial motor vehicle at the junction of Highway 11 and Highway 17 east of Nipigon. The male driver was issued three Provincial Offence Notices for Highway Traffic Act offences and subsequently an interaction occurred between the accused and the officer and the officer was assaulted.
As a result of the investigation, 56 year old Harry CORRIN of Winnipeg has been charged with Assault contrary to section 266 of the Criminal Code.
The accused was released and is scheduled to appear in Nipigon at the Ontario Court of Justice on September 18, 2018.