Four motorists fined $70,000 for DUI during Tobago Carnival

Four mo­torists have been fined a com­bined $70,000 af­ter plead­ing guilty to dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence (DUI) charges be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Ali­cia Chankar at the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court on Tues­day.

The men be­tween the ages 28 and 40 were among four mo­torists ar­rest­ed dur­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise on Oc­to­ber 30, fol­low­ing the Stink and Dut­ty Fete at the Pa­rade Grounds, Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, Ba­co­let, To­ba­go.

They were stopped along the Claude Noel High­way, Calder Hall, where breathal­yser tests record­ed al­co­hol lev­els rang­ing from 43 to 74 mi­cro­grams of al­co­hol per 100 mil­li­l­itres of breath, above the pre­scribed le­gal lim­it.

When ques­tioned by the mag­is­trate about their al­co­hol con­sump­tion, the men dis­closed that they had con­sumed vary­ing quan­ti­ties of al­co­holic bev­er­ages, in­clud­ing shots of Pun­cheon Rum and Old Oak White Rum. One said he had con­sumed a drink of­fered by a friend.