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York Regional Police staff sergeant Laurie Perks, 54, is charged with dangerous driving. Trial dates are set for June in Bradford over allegations she drove around last year's Santa Claus parade in Innisfil.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Dangerous driving is the charge, and the allegation is that an off-duty staff sergeant left the road to get around a parade. No one was hurt. The June dates in Bradford are when that driving gets tested.
Laurie Perks, 54, a staff sergeant with York Regional Police, has trial dates in June in Bradford, Ontario, on a charge of dangerous driving. She is also due back in that court early in the new year. South Simcoe police allege that on the afternoon of Nov. 23, 2025, while she was off duty, she drove a grey Audi SUV around the Santa Claus parade on Innisfil Beach Road.
Police say the SUV was blocked from the parade route in a plaza parking lot, hopped a curb, and drove through a pedestrian crosswalk and a trail behind the plaza. No one was hurt. Investigators released photos of the vehicle before they identified Perks. She has been a police officer for nearly 30 years, including time as a media officer and as a detective.
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