A man was banned from the roads after he admitted being drunk behind the wheel.

Teko Harvey, 37, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to impaired driving and riding a motorcycle without a valid licence.

The court heard that police were stationed on South Road in Hamilton Parish conducting roadside sobriety checks.

Harvey stopped at the checkpoint at about 1.28am and told officers he was coming back from an event at the Prospect Police Recreation Club.

Asked whether he had been drinking, he said: “I had one, maybe two or three.”

Officers suspected him of driving while impaired and asked Harvey to complete a breath test.

Harvey refused to take the test, and police arrested him and took him to Hamilton Police Station.

He was requested once again to complete a breath test, but Harvey repeatedly said: “You’re weird, you’re weird, you’re weird.”

Officers later found that his driver’s licence had expired.

They subsequently charged him with refusing to take a breath test and driving without a valid licence.

The incident happened on September 14 last year.

Harvey’s breath-test charge was drop in court yesterday after he admitted an alternate charge of impaired driving.

Senior magistrate Maxanne Anderson fined Harvey, from Pembroke, $1,200 for driving while impaired and $200 for riding without a licence.

She also banned him from the roads for 18 months.

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