Four-year driving ban for impaired motorcyclist
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This article was published 02/12/2011 (5144 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It will be years before Arron Sean Beard will be back behind the handlebars after leading police on a motorcycle chase while intoxicated.
A four-year driving ban is part of the sentence Beard received this week after he pleaded guilty to driving with a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit and flight from police.
Those charges resulted from a June 2, 2009 chase that began around 11 p.m. when RCMP were called to Oak Lake Beach for a complaint that involved a man on a motorcycle.
There, Mounties spotted Beard riding his motorbike and switched on the police vehicle’s lights. An officer signalled for Beard to stop but he steered around and continued on.
A woman was on the back of the bike and police, who called in backup, set up a road block at Provincial Road 254. Beard rode through the ditch to get around the blockade and kept going until he finally came to a halt near the Trans-Canada Highway at Kemnay.
Unsteady on his feet, Beard would later provide breath samples that placed his blood-alcohol level well over the legal limit. Meanwhile, the woman who was on the back of the motorcycle, Beard’s common-law spouse, wouldn’t tell police what had happened that night.
Defence lawyer Norm Sims filled in some of the gaps in the story in court. Beard and his spouse were on their way to Ontario from Saskatchewan and had stopped in Oak Lake when they had an argument, which was overheard by people who then called police.
Without going into specifics, Sims and Beard both indicated that the fleeing motorcycle rider was trying to get his intoxicated wife to Brandon hospital at the time of the chase.
Beard was released on bail but failed to attend court in January of this year for his trial. He then served some time in Alberta and, once he had finished that sentence, he was flown back to Manitoba to deal with his charges here.
He was in the Brandon jail on Oct. 25 when he hurled a cup at a corrections officer, which earned him another charge.
He was in custody in court on Monday as Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta sentenced him to a total of nine months minus 142 days credit for presentence custody for the drunken chase, missing court and assaulting a peace officer.
In addition, he was given a four-year driving ban, a ban that will follow a four-year driving prohibition he was placed on for his previous Alberta conviction.
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