News Release
SIU Concludes Investigation into Brampton Arrest
Case Number: 25-OCI-129
In the early morning of April 5, 2025, a citizen reported a suspected impaired driver operating a vehicle in the area of Queen Street East and Chrysler Drive in Brampton. Peel Regional Police officers located the vehicle stopped in a nearby parking lot. Officers surrounded the vehicle with their cruisers, exited, and observed the driver slumped in the driver’s seat. The 26-year-old male driver woke up, but refused to exit the Tesla at the officers’ request and physically resisted their efforts to pull him from the car. He held onto the steering wheel tightly and attempted to put the Tesla in motion. With the assistance of several officers, the man was eventually extricated from the vehicle and arrested. At hospital, he was diagnosed with a fractured left finger. On his assessment of the evidence, SIU Director Joseph Martino determined there were no reasonable grounds to believe that an officer committed a criminal offence in connection with the man’s arrest and injury.
Full Director’s Report (with Incident Narrative, Evidence, and Analysis & Director’s Decision): https://www.siu.on.ca/en/directors_reports.php.
The SIU is an independent government agency that investigates the conduct of officials (municipal, regional and provincial police officers, police officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, special constables with the Niagara Parks Commission and peace officers with the Legislative Protective Service) that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault and/or the discharge of a firearm at a person. All investigations are conducted by SIU investigators who are civilians. Under the Special Investigations Unit Act, the Director of the SIU must
- consider whether the official has committed a criminal offence in connection with the incident under investigation
- depending on the evidence, cause a criminal charge to be laid against the official where grounds exist for doing so, or close the file without any charges being laid
- publicly report the results of its investigations
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Monica Hudon, siu.media@ontario.ca
SIU Communications/Service des communications, UES