An in­tox­i­cat­ed dri­ver who went to the Bras­so Po­lice Sta­tion to re­new his firearm li­cence was ar­rest­ed and charged with dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of al­co­hol. Hi­leri­um Subero, 52, a labour­er of Tabaquite, who had more than dou­ble the le­gal lim­it of al­co­hol in his sys­tem when dri­ving, ad­mit­ted to the po­lice that he drove him­self to the sta­tion.

When Subero walked in­to the sta­tion on Tues­day, the of­fi­cers ob­served that his breath had a strong odour and his speech was slurred.He was sub­ject­ed to a breathal­yser test which record­ed a read­ing of 97 mi­cro­grammes. The le­gal lim­it is 35 mi­cro­grammes.Subero was charged by PC Ram­lochan and the next day he ap­peared be­fore Cou­va Mag­is­trate Gail Gon­za­les who slapped him with a $4,000 fine. He was or­dered to pay the mon­ey in two weeks.

Mean­while, gar­den­er Robert Vil­lafana, 46, ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Gon­za­les for curs­ing PC Julio Vil­lafana (no re­la­tion) a week af­ter he was rep­ri­mand­ed and dis­charged by the same mag­is­trate for threat­en­ing to chop his neigh­bour.This time the mag­is­trate fined him $200 for curs­ing the of­fi­cer.In or­der­ing him to pay the fine forth­with, the mag­is­trate al­so urged him to try and not re­turn be­fore her be­fore the end of the week.