A 58-year-old man who was disqualified from driving until 2032 when he was caught driving with a low-range blood alcohol level of 0.057 was sentenced in Orange Local Court on Monday.
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John Alexander Paterson of Cudal Street, Manildra, was convicted and given a 12-month community corrections order and was banned from driving for six months for driving while disqualified.
He was also fined $220 and was given a concurrent three month driving disqualification and will have to have an interlock device fitted to his car for 24-months for low-range drink driving.
Paterson was charged after being stopped by police while driving along Tamaringa Avenue at Port Macquarie at 2.30am on August 18.
During the sentencing magistrate David Day said Paterson had a bad driving record with previous convictions for high-range and mid-range drink driving.
In another matter, Shannon Robert Maxwell Fogg, 23, of Gardiner Road, was also disqualified from driving after appearing in Orange Local Court on Monday.
Fogg was fined $110 and was disqualified from driving for three months for driving with cannabis in his system.
The green-p-plater was drug tested by police on Sydney Road, Kelso, at 3.45pm on May 4, and said he had smoked the cannabis after attending a funeral in Sydney the previous day.
The charge also put Fogg in breach of an 18-month non-conviction bond he was given in Yass Local Court for low-range drink driving.
He had been caught driving with a reading of 0.051 on March 3 in Yass.
His bond was revoked in court, and he was instead fined $110 and disqualified from driving for three months, starting from Monday.
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