A drug-driver has been banned from getting behind the wheel for three years.
Mark Petre, 45, was driving a Vauxhall Antara on Trinity Drive in Workington on February 7.
He had 341mcg of Benzoylecgonine – a metabolite of cocaine - per litre of breath.
Petre, of Jackson Road, Salterbeck, Workington, pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.
He appeared at Workington Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Petre was banned from driving for three years. He was fined £120 and must pay £85 costs and a £34 victim surcharge.
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