Derek Achong

East­er limes at Cau­ra Riv­er end­ed abrupt­ly for 11 drunk dri­vers yes­ter­day morn­ing. The dri­vers were all ar­rest­ed be­tween 8 and 11 am, while dri­ving along the Cau­ra Roy­al Road to­wards the pop­u­lar riv­er. The dri­vers were ad­min­is­tered the breathal­yser test and record­ed read­ings over 35 mi­cro­grammes of al­co­hol for every 100 mil­li­l­itres of breath - the le­gal lim­it.

They were tak­en to the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion, where they were charged with drunk­en dri­ving, which car­ries a max­i­mum penal­ty of an $8,000 fine or up to five years in prison. They are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Tu­na­puna mag­is­trate on Tues­day morn­ing.

Mean­while, two men were ar­rest­ed dur­ing the ex­er­cise for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na. Both men, of El So­cor­ro, re­port­ed­ly had the drugs hid­den in their pants and were ar­rest­ed with the as­sis­tance of the Po­lice Ca­nine Unit. In­volved in the ex­er­cise were Cpl Har­ry­lal and PCs Tewari and Joseph.