Suspected impaired driver found asleep in running vehicle with loaded gun: Police
Posted July 18, 2023 1:00 pm.
Last Updated July 18, 2023 1:27 pm.
A suspected impaired driver is facing more than a dozen charges after he was allegedly discovered asleep in a running vehicle with a loaded gun in Toronto’s east end.
Officers were called to the area of Broadview Avenue and Queen Street East around 8:20 a.m. on Monday after getting calls about an impaired driver.
Police allege a man was found asleep in the driver’s seat of a running vehicle and was arrested at the scene. Officers also found a loaded gun inside the vehicle.
Toronto resident Ahmed Hassan, 25, is facing 14 charges, including a variety of impaired and weapon offences.
He was scheduled to appear in a Toronto courtroom on Tuesday morning.
