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Two teenagers fined after confrontation with police

Two Pembroke teenagers were fined yesterday in Magistrates’ Court after a drunken late night altercation in Paget.Rakhai Paul, 18, from Curving Avenue, pleaded guilty to driving while impaired, violently resisting arrest and using threatening words.Brian Batson, 19, from Old House Lane, admitted obstructing an officer during the same incident.Crown counsel Susan Mulligan said police saw two men on a bike travelling East on Front Street at high speed around 2.45am on Wednesday.The officers followed the vehicle, which was driven by Paul, and stopped it near Ice Queen.The officers noticed his breath smelled of alcohol and his words were slurred.The officers told Paul he was going to be arrested on suspicion of impaired driving, but when they attempted to handcuff him he began to push them away, waving his arms in the air and then rolling on the ground.Batson, who was a pillion passenger on the vehicle, tried to stop the officers from arresting Paul.He told police: “You want to fight me, come get me. You can’t do f*** all to me. I know my rights.”Officers used Captor spray to detain both men and arrested them before taking them to the Hamilton Police Station.Paul was given a breath test, which showed he had 158mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood, nearly double the legal limit of 80mg.He told one officer: “Remember you have got a life outside the blue uniform. At the end of the day we all bleed the same. Consequences mean nothing to me.”Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner fined Paul a total of $1,900 for the offences and banned him from driving all vehicles for one year.When Paul asked for time to pay the fines, Mr Warner initially resisted, saying: “Consequences don’t matter to you.“If you young people want to act like thugs, you deserve to be treated like thugs. You don’t look remorseful to me. You don’t care about consequences.”Batson was fined $500 for obstructing an officer.Both men were given one month to pay their fines.