A Portuguese national was jailed for three months on Friday after he was caught drunk driving while serving a driving disqualification for the same offence.

Marco Carreiro, 24, of Hamilton Parish, also gave Police a false name when he was stopped on suspicion of impaired driving.

Crown counsel Juan Wolffe said Carreiro lied to Police about his name, because he knew he was previously convicted for impaired driving.

Mr. Wolffe told the court that Carreiro was disqualified for 12 months in October 2003.

Carreiro was caught on March 14, after Police saw him swerving along North Shore Road, near Shelly Bay Beach.

Mr. Wolffe said: ?His actions showed that he had no regard for the law.?

Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves sent him to prison for three months on each of the three counts to be served concurrently and an additional two years off the road.

Carreiro was one of seven impaired drivers and one alleged impaired driver to appear in Magistrates? Court yesterday.

Andrew Lionel Phillips, CEO of Global Arts Entertainment, was the only person to plead not guilty out of the offenders.

Phillips, 40, of Pine Tree Lane, Sandys, was caught on March 16, in Somerset. He also pleaded not guilty to refusing to give a sample of breath for the alco-analyser.

Mr. Greaves bailed Phillips for $1,000 and set the matter down for trial on April 19.

Mr. Greaves added: ?Also sir, bring along $2,000 when you come because if you are found guilty you will have to pay on the spot or go to jail, but if you are found not guilty you can have a party.?

Also caught on North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish was Cedar Skinner who was driving with almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.

Skinner, 23, of Hamilton Parish, was stopped by Police at 3.45 a.m. on March 12.

A breath test revealed that he had 142 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

He was fined $1,000 and disqualified from driving for 12 months.

Manuel Pereira, 40, of Devonshire, was stopped on Bishop Spencer Road, Pembroke, on February 12, after Police in an unmarked car saw him swerving and overtaking several vehicles.

Mr. Wolffe said when he was finally stopped he was taken for a breath test, which showed that he was over three times the legal limit, with 244 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of his blood.

He was fined $1,000 or 90 days in prison.

Mr. Greaves said: ?If you come back here, I will lock you up.?

Irish national Damien Corr, was caught drunk driving on March 15 when he was seen swerving into the lane of an oncoming Police vehicle.

Mr. Wolffe said he told officers that he had had ?a few pints?.

Mr. Greaves fined the Elbow Beach employee $1,000 fine to be paid by April 16 and disqualified him from driving for 12 months.

Second time offender Larry Furbert, 45, of Devonshire, was in a single vehicle accident when he was caught.

He told officers that he had three to four shots of alcohol before driving.

Mr. Wolffe said his breath test showed that he was over 100 points above the legal limit. Furbert had 184 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

On March 4, Louis Somner was caught driving under the influence of alcohol.

Somner, 45, of Hamilton Parish, was just under three times the legal limit, with a breath test showing a reading of 222 milligrams of alcohol in his blood.

Nine days after Somner another Hamilton Parish resident was caught for drunk driving after being in an accident.

Dwayne Lewis, 43, claimed that he had fallen asleep at the wheel on North Shore Road.

Officers said his eyes were red and glazed and they could smell alcohol.

He told officers that he did not want to drive.

He was fined the standard $1,000 fine to be paid by April 16 or 90 days in prison and he was disqualified from driving for 12 months.