A North Battleford police officer arrested for drunk driving in 2011 has been sentenced.
Tyson Robert Drabinasty, 33, was convicted on one count of impaired driving in North Battleford Provincial Court. He was acquitted on the two other charges - driving with a blood-alcohol level higher than .08 and dangerous driving.
Drabinasty received a sentence of $1,000 fine and also a one-year driving prohibition.
He was arrested following a collision between his vehicle and a pedestrian on July 3 of last year. Drabinasty was off-duty at the time.
The case went to trial this year. Drabinasty's lawyer Ron Piche mounted a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms with respect to some of the evidence obtained in the case.
A Charter voir dire was held on those issues earlier this year. In August, Judge Dolores Ebert ruled Drabinasty's Charter right to privacy had been violated when police officers entered his garage as part of the drunk driving investigation that ensued. As a result, evidence obtained following police entry into Drabinasty's garage was excluded in the case, including the breath test results.
