A DOCK motorist has been sentenced for drink-driving after being seen leaving a supermarket car park while over the legal alcohol limit, a court has heard.

Police officers stopped Marius Badea, aged 40, after seeing him drive a Ford Transit van out of the Tesco store car park in Haverfordwest at around 10.30pm on New Year’s Eve.

“It was his standard of driving that caused officers to stop the vehicle,” Crown Prosecutor Sian Vaughan told District Judge Mark Layton, sitting at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week.

“He was swerving over the central markings.”

Breath tests carried out at the police station later showed Badea had 44 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

Badea, of Llanion Cove, Cleddau Reach, Pembroke Dock, pleaded guilty to drink-driving and chose to represent himself in court.

“I’m a driver for an agency, but I have no excuses for what happened,” he told the court.

Badea was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined £500. He was also ordered to pay a £200 court surcharge and £85 in costs.

A Monkton motorist has been ordered off the roads for three years after driving through Milford Haven town centre with the Class A drugs cocaine and benzoylecgonine in his system

A MAN caught driving through Milford Haven with cocaine in his system has been banned from the roads for three years.

Simon Bowen, aged 35, was stopped by police on August 2, 2025, as he drove through Hamilton Terrace, Milford Haven.

Subsequent blood tests showed Bowen had 240 micrograms of the cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine and 27 micrograms of cocaine in his system. The legal limits are 50 and 10 micrograms respectively.

This week, Bowen appeared before District Judge Mark Layton sitting at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court via video link from Swansea Prison, where he is currently serving a sentence for a separate drugs offence.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of drug-driving.

Addressing the court in mitigation, Bowen said: “I know I’ve made mistakes in the past, but I previously had an addiction.

“I’m now on a 12-step recovery process and working towards sorting out my drug addiction.”

In addition to the three-year driving disqualification, Bowen was fined £120 and ordered to pay a £48 court surcharge.

A WOMAN who was almost three times over the legal drink-drive limit hurled aggressive abuse at a police officer after crashing her car into a wall in a hotel car park, a court has heard.

Caia Restall, aged 34, was seen by hotel staff driving a silver BMW in the Mariners Square car park in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

“They saw her collide with a wall and as a result alerted the police,” Crown Prosecutor Sian Vaughan told District Judge Mark Layton, sitting at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court this week.

When officers arrived, Restall became aggressive, calling one officer “a racist c***” and “a lying creep.”

“She was extremely intoxicated,” the prosecutor said. “When interviewed later, she had no recollection of the incident.”

A subsequent breath test showed Restall had 104 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath — almost three times the legal limit.

Restall, of Heol Penlan, Goodwick, pleaded guilty to drink-driving.

A probation report stated that she had been drinking with friends that evening but became concerned about the welfare of a family member.

“When she found this out, she panicked and made the decision to drive before correcting herself and returning back to the car park,” her solicitor Fenn Richards said. “This was when the police arrived.”

Because Restall was already subject to a previous disqualification for a drug-driving conviction, she was disqualified from driving for a total of three years.

The court also ordered her to complete ten rehabilitation activity requirement days, 150 hours of unpaid work, and to wear a 60-day alcohol monitoring tag.

She was further ordered to pay a £114 court surcharge and £85 in costs.