A driver whose face and clothing were found covered in a white powder underlines what police in York Region say is a stubbornly common problem of impaired driving.
It was last Monday, around midnight, that cops gave chase to a vehicle that was driving without its headlights on, in the area of Weston and Rutherford Roads.
The allegation from York Regional Police is that the driver wouldn't stop and that the pursuit continued to a gas station, where officers were able to surround the vehicle and confront the driver.
Cst. Andy Pattenden says police found a 31-year old man behind the wheel, covered in what investigators believe was cocaine.
He faces several charges, including impaired driving and possession of cocaine.
That man is one of 21 people in York Region last week alone who were accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
What's arguably more concerning is that over the same period, another 154 people were accused of distracted driving.
"Sadly, in York Region, this isn't a high number," Pattenden says, "this is what we're seeing, it seems, every week."
Pattenden says officers rode transit buses to clamp down on distracted driving.
It's a strategy that police forces across the Toronto region use more frequently.
Cops will take a window seat on a bus, and peer down into vehicles in traffic to observe the driver's behaviour.
Anyone spotted on their phone, or otherwise driving distracted, has their licence plate information radioed to a nearby police cruiser.
"Everything is an emergency, it seems," Pattenden says.
"People just seem so addicted to their phones ... they seem to believe that it's okay if you're stopped at a red light, but it's not."