Police officers in Brantford didn’t have to go far to arrest a suspected impaired driver.
In fact, the man they were seeking walked right into their front door.
Around 7 p.m. Saturday, police were notified about a possible impaired driver who had left a home on Grey Street and was heading toward Wayne Gretzky Parkway.
As dispatchers were notifying officers about the call, the man in question pulled up at the city’s police station and entered the door.
An officer who was leaving the building at the time allegedly smelled alcohol on the man’s breath, and then noticed that the licence plate number of a vehicle newly parked at the station matched the one officers had just been told to watch out for.
The man approached a receptionist and asked about the whereabouts of his friend.
Police learned that the friend he was referring to was a man who had been arrested for impaired driving a few hours earlier, with the man now asking about that driver in the passenger seat.
Multiple breath tests conducted at the police station allegedly found that this man had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system, resulting in him being placed under arrest.
