Four dri­vers who were held in a breathal­yser ex­er­cise in San­gre Grande last week­end were fined a to­tal of $20,500 yes­ter­day. Ja­son Grey, Dil­lon Siew­c­hand, Ker­ry Phillip and Wen­dell Al­cin­dor all plead­ed guilty to the charge of drunk dri­ving when they ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Aden Stroude in the San­gre Grande Third Court. They were ar­rest­ed by po­lice dur­ing road­blocks which were co-or­di­nat­ed by Su­per­in­ten­dent Hen­dron Moses and ASP Neville Sankar last Fri­day and Sun­day. They were or­dered to pay fines, which ranged from $3,500 to $6,500. In de­fault they will face up to 90 days in prison. Ac­cord­ing to the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cle and Road Traf­fic Act, a per­son found guilty of drunk dri­ving is li­able to a max­i­mum fine of $8,000 or up to five years in prison.

In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Sankar said sim­i­lar breathal­yser ex­er­cis­es would be done every week­end in an at­tempt to curb the road-fa­tal­i­ty toll. That fig­ure stands at 103 for the year, ac­cord­ing to sta­tis­tics from the High­way Pa­trol and Traf­fic Branch.

The charges against the dri­vers were laid by PCs Vish­wanath Sankar and Win­ston Boodram, of the San­gre Grande sta­tion.