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Turnberry woman gets jail for driving drunk
A Tumberry Twp. woman was
fined $1,500 and had her driver’s
licence suspended for two years
after pleading guilty to impaired
driving and refusing to provide a
breath sample.
Julie Lediet, represented by
lawyer Norman Picked, pleaded
guilty before Judge Garry Hunter in
provincial court, Wingham, last
Thursday.
The court heard that on Oct. 21,
Lediet was stopped in a RIDE
(Reduce Impaired Drivers
Everywhere) program in Tumberry
at 10.15 p.m. According to Crown
Attorney Peter Rollings, Lediet
showed signs of impairment, but
refused to provide officers with a
breath sample.
Later she was taken for a breatha
lyzer, but once again refused the
demand, refused legal aid. and was
“generally unco-operative,” accord
ing to Rollings. The court also heard
that Lediet has a previous convic
tion for impaired driving in 1995,
for which she received a fine and
three days in jail even though it was
her first offence.
In defence of his client, Pickeil
said Lediet is truly remorseful for
her actions and has stopped drink
ing, noting she had pleaded guilty
on her first appearance before the
court.
Judge Hunter fined her $750 for
the impaired and $750 for refusing
to provide a breath sample.
DRINKING & DRIVING
Kent Patterson of Blyth pleaded
guilty to driving with over 80 mil
ligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres
of blood. He was fined $1,500 and
had his driver’s licence suspended
for 12 months.
In the early morning hours of July
22, an off-duty Ontario Provincial
Police officer noticed that the car
behind him was being driven in an
erratic fashion. The officer followed
the driver, later identified as
Patterson, to his Blyth home where
he saw that his ability to operate a
motor vehicle was clearly impaired
by alcohol.
Patterson was advised to wait
until police back-up arrived when
he was taken for two breathalyzer
tests which each resulted in read-
of blood.
Patterson had one prior convic
tion for drinking and driving dating
back to 1993, which Duty Counsel
John Myers acknowledged. He sug
gested a monetary penalty given the
high readings. The judge imposed
double the normal fine.
PURSUIT
Another young Blyth man, Jason
Lee, appeared in court last week
and pleaded guilty to failing to stop
for police without a reasonable
excuse.
The court heard that on Aug. 20 in
Blyth, police were patrolling the
village in a marked cruiser. At 1:45
a.m., they were parked at the comer
of King Street and Gypsy Lane
when they noticed a southbound
vehicle, containing a driver and
three passengers.
The vehicle turned east and the
officers decided to follow it to con
duct a sobriety test on the driver.
The vehicle accelerated to a high
rate of speed even though there was
a considerable amount of traffic in
the village due to a function which
was just over.
The police constable activated the
lights, but still the pursued vehicle
showed no signs of stopping. It
struck a curb, scattering pedestrian
traffic and proceeded across several
lawns to avoid the police. This
resulted in property damage to those
lawns, Rollings continued.
The car was abandoned on a rear
lawn of a residential property and
the occupants fled on foot. The
vehicle was towed away, but not
before some beer and liquor was
found inside. The car was later iden
tified as Lee’s.
Defence Counsel Glen Carey
agreed substantially with the facts,
save for the suggestion that there
was a high volume of traffic in the
village at the time.
He said that Lee is 26 years old
and at the time of the incident was
on parole. As a result, Lee’s parole
was revoked and he served the bal
ance of the time in jail, causing him
to lose his job, according to his
lawyer. Carey said his client “pan
icked” on the night in question and
exercised poor judgement.
Lee was fined $1,000, placed on
12 months probation and had his
driver’s licence suspended for one
year.
PLEADS GUILTY
Cornelia Blom of Walton will be
sentenced at the January court after
pleading guilty to driving with over
80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of
blood.
On July 21 in East Wawanosh
police attended a motor vehicle
accident at 3:40 a.m. Blom, the
driver of the vehicle, showed signs
of impairment and subsequently
provided a breathalyzer sample that
showed a reading of 220.
Although Blom will return to
court on Jan. 18 for sentencing,
Judge Hunter suspended her dri
ver’s licence for two years. “You’re
off the road as of now,” the judge
said.
FRAUD
Lisa Beitz of Hanover was fined
$500 and placed on 12 months pro
bation for several instances of
fraud, including defrauding the
Laurentian Bank of $1,100, which
has since been repaid. However,
several fines remain unpaid, the
court heard.
“You’ve run out of breaks you're
going to get in this court,” Judge
Hunter warned Beitz.
PEACE BOND
A Mount Forest man, James G.
Hunt, was ordered to enter into a
peace bond and was placed on 12
months probation at the December
court.
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