A man has been sentenced to the deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and mopeds for 8 months and 2 days, as well as the deprivation of liberty for 4 months for refusing to correctly perform the drug detection test at a Civil Guard checkpoint.
The events took place in the municipality of Teguise, when in a preventive alcohol and drug device, the Civil Guard agents observed how a vehicle was circulating on a road and upon detecting the police presence, made a U-turn to evade the control.
Therefore, the vehicle was intercepted and accompanied to the verification point, where the driver voluntarily submitted to the alcohol test, yielding a result of less than 0.25 milligrams of alcohol per liter of exhaled air. The agents then proceeded to perform a verification test to detect the presence of narcotic substances, psychotropics, stimulants or other similar substances.
After being informed of the legal obligation to submit to drug detection tests, the driver was given a collection device that he had to insert into his mouth and discharge enough saliva to allow the test to be carried out with full guarantee. The agents then observed how the driver, in a "tenacious and rebellious" manner, ignored the agents' instructions on the procedure to follow, so they proceeded to investigate him as "alleged perpetrator of a crime of refusing to submit to the aforementioned tests."
After the oral hearing, the investigated has been sentenced to the deprivation of liberty of 4 months and to the deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and mopeds for 8 months and 2 days.
