A 53-year-old Yorkton man has found out the hard way that new drunk driving laws have some teeth.
Brien Frederick Boehm pleaded guilty in Yorkton Provincial Court Monday to driving with a blood alcohol content over .08.
Under subsequent offences legislation he received four months behind bars, to be followed by one year of probation, and a three-year driving prohibition.
Court was told Boehm was pulled over at about 7:20 in the morning on May 21 with a blood alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit, an aggravating factor.
Also aggravating was a criminal record that included five previous drunk driving convictions. By a peculiarity of the law, however, the current conviction only counted as number four because three of his previous convictions occurred on the same day in April 2007. That quirk qualified him for the mandatory minimum of four months. If counted as a sixth conviction it would have likely netted Boehm a considerably longer period of incarceration.
He was also fined $200 for driving while suspended under the Traffic Safety Act.
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