A Sandys man who was twice struck by Taser gun after being stopped for drunk driving was banned from the roads this morning.

Dennis Landy, 29, from West Side Road, pleaded guilty to driving while over the legal blood alcohol limit and violently resisting arrest.

Magistrates’ Court heard that at about 1.45am on January 18, officers in a marked police car near the Port Royal Golf Course saw Landy riding a motorcycle at high speed without a helmet.

They stopped Landy, who admitted being drunk, telling officers: “I’m tapped.”

As the officers were speaking with Landy, he became aggressive and hostile. The Police decided to handcuff Landy for his and their safety, but the defendant struggled, violently throwing his arms in the air and using his body weight to avoid the handcuffs.

After being warned about resisting arrest, one of the officers struck Landy with the Taser gun, but it had a “negative effect”. Landy got off the ground and continued to lash out and charge at the officers until he was “tasered” a second time.

He was taken to Hamilton Police Station, where he agreed to provide officers with a breath sample. Tests revealed that Landy had 156mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood, nearly double the legal limit of 80mg.

Appearing in court, Landy apologised for his actions, asking the court for leniency.

Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo banned Landy from driving all vehicles for 18 months and fined him $1,200 for driving while over the legal blood alcohol limit. He further fined Landy $200 for violently resisting arrest.

Also appearing in court was 31-year-old Robert Chapman, who pleaded guilty to driving over the limit in an incident last Thursday.

Prosecutors told the court that Chapman, from Ariel View Road, Devonshire, was arrested at about 6.20pm by Police responding to reports of a single-vehicle crash on Middle Road.

When officers arrived on the scene, they discovered a damaged car on a grass verge near the junction with Christ Church Lane in Devonshire along with a damaged wall. Emergency Medical Technicians were already there examining Chapman, who identified himself as the driver of the car.

Chapman denied that he had been drinking, telling the officers: “I was driving my car and some one tried to overtake me.”

However, a subsequent breath test revealed he had 205mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood.

Mr Tokunbo fined Chapman $1,200, disqualifying him from driving all vehicles for 18 months.