A Bermuda Regiment officer won?t be driving any jeeps for 12 months as he was taken off the road after he admitted impaired driving.

First Lt. David Madeiros, 32, of St. John?s Hill, Pembroke was fined $1,000 and banned from all vehicles for one year by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.

Crown counsel Wayne Caines said on December 27 a Mitsubishi Lancer was involved in a collision on St. John?s Road. The vehicle was damaged, Mr. Caines said, and when Police asked the driver to identify himself, he presented a Regiment ID.

Madeiros was arrested under suspicion of drunk driving and taken to Hamilton Police Station where he refused to take a breathalyser test. The prosecution offered no evidence on that charge.

In Magistrates? Court on Thursday, four more men were fined $1,000 and banned from driving for 12 months.

Ronald Madeiros, 60, of Warwick pleaded guilty to driving drunk on Crow Lane, Pembroke on January 2, 2005.

Crown counsel Graveney Bannister said Police on mobile patrol saw his car ?weaving from one side of the road to the other?.

Madeiros apologised to his family and the court.

Julian Shields, 58, of Paget, was found with cocaine and heroin in his blood after an accident at 9.40 a.m. on October 4 in St. John?s Road, Pembroke.

Although Shields said he did not consume any drugs that morning, he pleaded guilty to impaired driving.

Trevor McDonald, 39, of Warwick pleaded guilty to riding his unlit auxiliary cycle drunk on Trimingham Hill on Christmas Day.

He told Police he did not drink when they stopped him but he was later found to have 224 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood after a breathalyser test.

The legal limit is 80 milligrams.

Calvin Thomas, 50, of Devonshire admitted driving drunk on The Glebe Road, Pembroke on December 10.

Mr. Bannister said Police found him at the scene of an accident.

Tests showed Thomas had 228 milligrams of alcohol to 100 millilitres of blood.