A Sanctuary Point man who admitted to drinking 10 schooners and one and a half bottles of wine before being caught behind the wheel has been placed on an intensive corrections order.
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Pentti Erkki Peltola, 68, pleaded guilty to high range drink driving in Nowra Local Court with Magistrate Gabriel Fleming also fining him $1500, disqualifying him from driving for 11 months and ordering he have an interlock device fitted to his vehicle for four years.
The intensive corrections order means he can serve his sentence in the community, rather than in jail.
Court papers said Peltola was driving a Toyota Starlet on Kerry Street, Sanctuary Point around 12.30am on July 28, which failed to stop at a stop sign.
Police witnessed his car going through the stop sign at the intersection of Links Avenue and pulled Peltola over.
He returned a positive breath test a later a blood reading four times the limit, 0.207.
Peltola told police he had drunk 10 schooners of beer and one and a half bottles of wine at the nearby St Georges Basin Country Club from 3pm the previous day.
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