A Bienfait woman pleaded guilty to a number of charges on Monday, including counts of impaired driving and operating a vehicle while disqualified.
Tayler Williamson entered the pleas in Estevan provincial court, while she also pleaded guilty to a number of breaches of various conditions. An assault charge was stayed by the Crown, as were other breach charges.
The 19-year-old was also facing charges of sexual assault and sexual interference along with a number of co-accused, but her charges her stayed by the Crown last Friday.
The two impaired charges stem from last spring. The first was on March 23, when she was pulled over for suspicion of impaired driving and gave breath readings of twice the legal limit.
Just 12 days later she was pulled over by police again. The officer noted her licence had been disqualified and upon a breath demand, she was found to be impaired, with readings of 0.12.
The Crown noted the frequency of the events was an aggravating factor. The Crown suggested fines of $1,200 for the first impaired offence and $1,300 for the second, while Williamson will be under a one-year driving prohibition. For the driving while disqualified charge, she received a fine of $300 and a further three-month driving prohibition.
For the breach charges the Crown suggested an appropriate penalty would be time served, which was 12 days. Williamson's lawyer suggested an absolute discharge would be more in her interest, as it would be better for her criminal record, and since she has already served time, the penalty would ultimately be the same.
Presiding Judge Karl Bazin accepted the request for an absolute discharge on the breaches.
In other court proceedings, a youth pleaded guilty to stealing a motor vehicle and break and enter.
The incident stemmed from Dec. 1 at the Viterra ammonia plant near Carlyle, when he and another youth, who is currently in jail, broke into the Viterra lot and one of the sheds.
The two youth were in a fenced in area of the ammonia plant when Carlyle RCMP were called. When members arrived, they followed footprints in the snow leading to a nearby farm where the pair had stolen a pick-up truck from the yard.
The officers returned to the Viterra lot and were told about a broken window on the electrical shed. It had been broken into and a shovel was found missing. It was later found with the truck in a slough. The Crown prosecutor said it looked as though the boys attempted to dig the vehicle out of the slough before giving up.
The Crown suggested the youth serve 12 months of probation, while completing between 50 and 100 community service hours.
Greg Wilson, the youth's Legal Aid lawyer, suggested there be a 12-month conditional discharge for the youth, considering that while he was involved, it was the co-accused who was the driving force behind the crimes.
"More fault lies on the co-accused," he said, noting it was the co-accused who was driving. "Did he make a bad choice? Yes. And he's paying the consequences for it."
Wilson also noted the arrest was a traumatic experience for the youth, who was taken down at gunpoint and by a police dog.
Bazin accepted the conditional discharge and ordered the youth to perform 50 hours of community service.
