A Yorkton man has found out the hard way that serial drunk driving will land a person some significant jail time.
Chanceller Alexson pleaded guilty in Yorkton court November 23 to one count of driving with a blood alcohol level greater than .08, one count of driving while under disqualification due to a previous impaired conviction and one count of impersonating another person to avoid prosecution.
On November 22, RCMP received a report of a group of intoxicated individuals leaving a local drinking establishment in a vehicle. Officers located the vehicle and arrested the driver for signs of impairment.
At the detachment, he provided two breath samples, both of which came back with readings of .17, more than twice the legal limit.
During this time, the suspect kept giving the name of his brother, prosectuor Daryl Bode told the Court. When he finally came clean that he was Chanceller Alexson, police determined he was already disqualified from driving due to a conviction from September 2014.
For that instance he received 12 months in prison and a three-year disqualification.
Bode entered the man’s criminal record indicating since 2008, Alexson has been convicted three times for impaired driving, seven times for driving while disqualified and once for fleeing from a police officer.
The escalating scale of incarceration for subsequent convictions landed Alexson in provincial prison for the next 18 months and an additional five years licence suspension.
He also pleaded guilty to two traffic tickets for a total of $700. Judge Ross Green defaulted payment of those fines, as well as, the victim surcharges so Alexson could serve those concurrently with his imprisonment on the criminal charges.
