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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Man with no driver's permit pleads guilty hitting cop with car

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1779 days ago
20200910
Marvin Noray

Marvin Noray

Casan­dra Thomp­son-Forbes

A 35-year-old un­em­ployed man from Crown Point ap­peared be­fore a Scar­bor­ough Vir­tu­al Mag­is­trates Court charged with three traf­fic of­fens­es af­ter he tried to evade po­lice dur­ing a traf­fic stop last Tues­day.

Rudhra Singh, of John Gor­man Trace, was charged with dri­ving with no dri­ver's per­mit, no cer­tifi­cate of in­sur­ance and wan­ton dri­ving when he ap­peared in court on Wednes­day.

The court heard that on Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 8), of­fi­cers PC An­toine and WPC Re­my-Coop­er, who are at­tached to the Traf­fic Branch, were on pa­trol when they al­leged­ly stopped Singh, who was nev­er is­sued a dri­ver's per­mit, dur­ing a rou­tine traf­fic ex­er­cise. He was dri­ving a rent­ed mo­tor ve­hi­cle along the Claude Noel High­way in Or­ange Hill at the time. How­ev­er, in his quest to es­cape the po­lice, he re­versed, hit­ting An­toine.

Singh plead­ed guilty to the of­fense of dri­ving with no per­mit and no cer­tifi­cate of in­sur­ance and was fined $1,000 or three months hard labour and $4,000 or nine months hard labour re­spec­tive­ly. He was then placed on $75,000 reg­is­trar bail or a cash al­ter­na­tive of $10,000 for the wan­ton dri­ving. He was al­so or­dered to re­port to the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion every Sat­ur­day. He is sched­uled to reap­pear in court on Oc­to­ber 6.

WPC Re­my Coop­er and PC An­toine of the Scar­bor­ough Traf­fic Branch laid the charges.


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