Off-duty cop arrested at restaurant for impaired driving; police seize gun

CITYnews halifax / By Natasha O’Neill

An off-duty officer with the Amherst Police Department was arrested and charged after the RCMP found him impaired at a restaurant in Oxford, N.S.

According to a press release from Mounties, they were called for a report of an intoxicated man on Feb. 23 at around 7:45 p.m. Once there, officers saw him show signs of impairment and had driven to the restaurant. He provided breath samples and failed the tests.

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RCMP arrested him for impaired operation of a motor vehicle. They searched the man and found a loaded handgun, that was not a service weapon.

As a result, Christopher Lamert Jobe, 42, has been charged with:

• Careless use of firearm
• Possession of a prohibited firearm with ammunition
• Carrying concealed weapon
• Unauthorized possession of loaded firearm
• Unauthorized possession of firearm
• Unauthorized possession of prohibited weapon
• Unauthorized possession in a motor vehicle
• Possession of firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized
• Possession of ammunition knowing its possession is unauthorized
• Operation while impaired
• Operation of a conveyance 80mg% or over

Police said that Jobe was taken to the Oxford detachment and registered breath samples of 260mg per cent and 250mg per cent. He was later released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in a provincial court on April 14.

Due to Jobe being an off-duty officer, the matter is now being investigated by the Serious Incident Response Team.