Liquor appeared to be the main cause behind the majority of activities responded to by members of the Estevan Police Service during the early part of last week.
On the night of May 5,, and early morning hours of May 6, EPS personnel ended up arresting and charging three people for being intoxicated in public and lodging them overnight. On that same night, a 27-year-old Manitoba man was arrested and charged for driving a vehicle while his blood-alcohol level was over .08 per cent.
The next night, a 44-year-old Ontario man was arrested and charged for the same offense.
On the night of May 7, a 22-year-old Estevan man was stopped and charged for impaired driving and for being over .08 while a British Columbia man was charged with providing false information to a police officer. He was charged with obstruction and while EPS members were doing a routine background check, it was revealed that this person had outstanding warrants awaiting him in B.C. That means he will be in an Estevan court room to answer to the charges in the near future.
EPS members were also asked to open an investigation into a vandalism incident at the Civic Auditorium during the evening of May 5 or early morning hours of May 6. (See related article).
An unknown number of people entered the Auditorium and damaged several offices and equipment in the facility as well as causing some significant damage. The matter remains under investigation.
On the night of May 10, EPS members responded to a call that came from the Pleasantdale area of the city. The cause was a possible domestic disturbance involving yelling and articles being broken. When police arrived, the scene of the disturbance was quiet and the owner of the residence allowed police to enter. A man within the residence was arrested on an outstanding warrant and the woman involved in the incident stated that there had been no violence directed toward her and she did not wish to lay charges, but merely wanted to leave.
Later that night, police attended to one home in a mobile home park to maintain peace while a woman entered the residence to retrieve some belongings. There was no incident.
On that same evening, a female called police to report an assault which has led to an investigation being established.
EPS members were then called to two separate areas in the city to look into noise complaints and in both instances the complaint centred around barking dogs. In both cases nobody was home at the time so the situations were left open and under investigation.
Further on in the evening, police received a complaint of a motorcycle being driven in an erratic manner on Ninth Avenue but upon their arrival they found that the motorcycle and driver were gone.
