UPDATE Friday, 28 February 2025:
The Cumberland County RCMP issued a “corrected” release on Friday morning regarding the arrest of off-duty police officer Christopher Lamert Jobe. It redacts the section indicating that his breath was tested at the scene, but retains the results of breath samples taken shortly after at the RCMP detachment in Oxford.
Jobe has been identified as a Sergeant with the Amherst Police Department. In a separate media release on Thursday, the APD announced the indefinite suspension of the officer, adding that he “has not been on active duty or at work for the past several months.”
Although the police have not identified the location of Jobe’s arrest, sources in the community report that he was seen to be intoxicated while in the Subway restaurant section of the Circle K convenience store, at the Irving gas station located at the entrance to the community near the Trans-Canada highway connector. It is not known whether police were notified by staff or a member of the public.
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RCMP Media Release (27 February 2025)
RCMP charge man with impaired operation and firearm offences
February 27, 2025, Oxford, Nova Scotia… The Nova Scotia RCMP has charged a man with impaired operation and firearms offences after responding to a report of an intoxicated man at a restaurant in Oxford.
On February 23, at approximately 7:45 p.m., RCMP officers responded to a report of an intoxicated man at a restaurant in Oxford. Upon arrival, officers learned that the man, who was showing signs of impairment, had driven to the restaurant. The man provided breath samples into an approved screening device which resulted in a “fail”. He was arrested for impaired operation of a motor vehicle.
While officers searched the man, they located and seized a loaded handgun*.
Christopher Lamert Jobe, 42, of Warren, 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
Jobe was transported to Oxford RCMP detachment and provided breath samples that registered 260 mg% and 250 mg%. He was later released on an undertaking. Jobe is scheduled to appear in Amherst Provincial Court on April 14.
Due to Jobe being an off-duty municipal police officer, the matter was referred to the Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT), which oversaw the investigation.
*The handgun was not a service weapon.
File #2025-242858
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Contact:
Strategic Communications and Media Relations
Nova Scotia RCMP
rcmpns-grcne@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
