CANTON -- An Ogdensburg man was arrested for driving while ability impaired by drugs and alcohol after shooting wildlife from a motor vehicle on County Route 16 on Sunday, according to St. Lawrence County sheriff's deputies.

Deputies were called to assist Department of Conservation (DEC) officers following a traffic stop on a vehicle for shooting a firearm from a motor vehicle on a public roadway.

Deputies interviewed Robert M. Montpetit, 58, and determined him to be impaired.

He was charged by deputies with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation: previous DWI conviction, driving while ability impaired by drugs/alcohol, operating a motor vehicle without an ignition interlock device and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

DEC officers charged him with shooting from/over a public roadway, taking wildlife from a public roadway, taking wildlife while in a motor vehicle, possession of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle and hunting small game without a license.

Montepetit was arraigned in Canton court and released under the supervision of probation to appear in court at a later date.