An auxiliary cycle rider caught driving while impaired has been fined and banned from driving.

Edward Cole, who gave the Fairmont Hamilton Princess as an address when he appeared at Magistrates? Court yesterday, had been on the Island for just one week when he committed the offence.

Crown counsel Paula Tyndale told the court that Police stopped Cole on Church Street at 3.10 a.m. on September 3. It took the defendant three attempts to put the cycle on its stand, he was red in the eyes and face, unsteady on his feet, and smelt of alcohol, she added.

He failed to provide a proper breath sample when he was taken to Hamilton Police Station, but that which he did provide showed 202 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood ? almost three times the legal limit of 80 mg.

Cole pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and refusing to comply with a demand for a breath sample.

Senior magistrate Archibald Warner fined him $1,000 and banned him from the road for 12 months for the impaired driving charge, but gave no separate penalty for the second matter.

An American tourist who brought cannabis to Bermuda when he visited on a cruise ship has been fined.

Paul Nador, of Locust Avenue, New York, was on the , berthed on Front Street, when Police and Customs officials boarded the vessel on Monday.

Crown counsel Paula Tyndale told Magistrates? Court yesterday that a search dog alerted the team to Nador?s cabin, where nine cannabis cigarettes were discovered.

The 49-year-old defendant told Police that he had brought the drug to the Island from New Jersey for his own personal use.

He pleaded guilty to importing cannabis into Bermuda and was fined $1,000 by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.

An American tourist who imported cannabis into Bermuda has been fined $1,000.

Joseph Germaine, 42, from Foxboro, Massachusetts, was caught at Airport customs on Sunday after flying in from Boston.

A search by Customs officers led them to find nine cannabis cigarettes, comprising 6.87 grams of the drug, on his person.

He pleaded guilty to importing the drug into Bermuda when he appeared at Magistrates? Court yesterday, resulting in the fine.

An impaired driver was apprehended by Police after his motorcycle swerved into the path of a car.

Elroy Dowling was on a black Honda when the incident happened on the evening of August 10 on Pender Road, Sandys.

Crown counsel Paula Tyndale told Magistrates? Court yesterday that Dowling had fallen off his cycle after swerving into the path of a a car.

Police officers at the scene noticed that the 47-year-old man?s speech was incoherent, that he smelt of alcohol, and that he had bloodshot eyes.

Dowling, of East Shore Lane, Sandys, failed the alco-analyser test with a reading of 255 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood ? more than three times the legal limit.

Having pleaded guilty to impaired driving, he was fined $1,000 by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner, and disqualified from driving for one year.