Owen Sound Police have charged five people with failing to comply with the Province’s stay at home order.
Police say on Saturday, (April 25th) just after midnight, they responded to a complaint about a disturbance in the parking lot of the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.
Police say they attended and located a social gathering of five people. They say, based on the current stay at home order in effect within the Province, two 20-year-old men, an 18-year-old man, an 18-year-old woman and a 16-year-old male, were charged and issued an $880.00 fine under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.
Police say they would like to remind the public effective April 8th, 2021, the stay at home order requires everyone to remain at home except for essential purposes, which does not include social gatherings. Police would like to stress that it is important to take this seriously and stay home.
The Province says, under its stay at home order, “You are not allowed to gather indoors or outdoors with anyone you do not live with, except one other person from outside of the household that lives alone.” The Province says people in Ontario must “Limit close contact to only members of your household (the people you live with). If you live alone, you can have close contact with only one other household.”
