WINNIPEG — A 69-year-old City of Winnipeg snowplow operator has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence.
Bazyli Lemecha was operating a snowplow the night of March 19, 2013, when a resident called police to report the driver of the plow was sleeping with the plow still running.
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When police arrived, Lemecha woke up as officers asked him to turn off the plow, court was told. Lemecha instead drove off but was later stopped by police.
Police could smell alcohol and found a bottle of alcohol in the machine.
Lemecha was fined $1,500 and banned from driving for a year.
He remains employed by the City of Winnipeg.
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