👮 CRIME - Allegedly stoned driver busted in Northern Ontario after calling 9-11 for fear of being followed

💊 DRUGS - Winnipeg police seize $15k in candy-shaped fentanyl

👦 YOUTH - 14-year-old Pickering gunslinger arrested after allegedly shooting up gas station, stealing 4 cars

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👮 CRIME 👮

BAT COUNTRY

She was somewhere around Thessalon on the edge of Lake Huron when the alleged drugs began to take hold.

26-year-old Kasia Haywood from Barrie, ON, swore someone was following her, so she dialled 9-11.

An OPP phone operator 350 kilometres away picked up the phone.

“Where are you, ma’am?” asked the operator from North Bay.

Haywood couldn’t say exactly. She was in the middle of nowhere, driving east.

“Pull over, ma’am,” said the operator.

“Can’t stop here,” she said. “This is bat country!”

The operator stayed on the line with her for another hour and dispatched a cruiser to intercept her further east on Highway 17.

Just outside of Massey, an OPP cruiser pulled her over.

As soon as Haywood rolled down her window, the policeman detected an “odour of freshly burnt cannabis” wafting from her car.

“The driver… appeared impaired and displayed signs of paranoid behaviour,” he wrote in a report.

He arrested Haywood and drove her to a hospital 20 minutes away for a checkup before bringing her to the Espanola OPP station for “further testing.”

Haywood was slapped with a 90-day license suspension and her car was impounded for a week.

She is charged with drug-impaired driving and is due to appear in court in Espanola on Nov. 17.

She still insists someone was following her.