News eC : Missing ferry gets man in hot water Missing a ferry, getting lost and pulling up beside a police car after drinking at a local hotel Sept. 21 brought a 33-year-old Vancouver man to Sidney provincial court Thursday. Alan Bruce Martin pleaded guilty to impaired driving and was fined $750 by Judge Stephen x Denroche, in addition to having his licence suspended for 12 months. Crown counsel Edward Orm- heim said a Sidney RCMP officer was stopped at Beacon Avenue and the Pat Bay Highway just before 9:30 p.m., watching for a suspected impaired driver reported by ferry terminal staff. tion project management firm and was retuming to Vancouver Sept. 21 after working on a project in Esquimalt. \ Enroute to the ferry, Martin stopped at a local establishment for supper and started drinking with some acquaintances. When he finally left the hotel and arrived at the ferry terminal, he learned the last ferry had left, Tumer said. Martin then tried to return to the hotel for the night, became lost and was squealing his tires out of frustration when he was spotted by police, Tumer added. Loss of a driver’s licence for a year will reduce Martin’s income The officer heard screeching tires and saw a westbound vehicle fishtailing on Beacon Avenue before the car drew up beside the police car, Ormheim said. The officer backed up and moved into the right-hand lane behind the suspect vehicle, when the suspect vehicle backed towards the police car, forcing the officer to drive the car back about 15 yards, Ormheim said. Defence lawyer James Turner said Martin only backed towards the police car to indicate to police that he did not plan to drive away. His client has his own construc- Man cut with glass in fight, * hospitalized for eight days A 23-year-old Central Saanich man was rushed to hospital, where he stayed for eight days, after being cut with glass in a Mt. Newton Crossroad home, Sidney RCMP said. Terry Charlie was taken to Saa- nich Peninsula Hospital and later transferred to Royal Jubilee Hospi- tal in Victoria, following the inci- dent April 7. Police responded to a caller reporting a scuffle between two Police search for break-in suspect yw Sidney RCMP are searching for a man described to be about 18-years-old, with clean cut black hair, about five-feet-seven and wearing a black leather jacket and blue jeans. “SThe man was seen near the scene of a reported in-progress house break-in police from the Sidney and Victoria airport RCMP detachments responded to in the 2100-block Westleigh Way, about 1:45 p.m. April 5. A police dog from the Colwood RCMP detachment failed to locate the suspect. Nothing was reported d missing from the home but police remind residents to ensure all win- dows are locked. Hit-and-run Sidney RCMP are searching for the owner of an older model light green vehicle with a dark roof that apparently hit a 1973 Dodge Dart - in the parking lot of Parkland School about 10 a.m. April 5. by 40 to 50 per cent as he will not be able to do the travelling his business requires, Turner said. Judge Denroche said missing the ferry will cost Martin a great deal over the year. “The time to decide whether you re going to be driving or not is before you start drinking. By the time you ve missed several ferries, it is too late,’ Denroche said. Martin had an impaired diving conviction in 1981, Denroche noted. men at a drinking party, about 2:46 a.m., at a home in the 2700-block Mt. Newton Crossroad. RCMP found Charlie bleeding from a wound cut with broken glass and called an ambulance. The second man involved in the apparent scuffle was not injured, police said. 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