The first Stanley Cup rioter to go to trial for breaching sentence conditions had been pulled over at a Vancouver police roadside check by chance, her trial heard Friday.
Camille Cacnio, 24, who was given a suspended sentence in September for looting two pairs of pants during the 2011 Stanley Cup riot, had been ordered to abide by an overnight curfew for the first year of her sentence.
It was the lightest sentence handed out to the four dozen adult rioters sentenced so far. And Cacnio, who lived in Richmond until recently, is one of 11 rioters Vancouver police have charged with breaching sentence conditions.
Cacnio was pulled over by police on Jan. 5, a Saturday, at 10: 20 p.m., 20 minutes past the time she was supposed to be at her Yaletown-area home.
She was driving eastbound on Powell Street when Const. Barry Selver pulled her over in the 900-block, near the drive-thru Starbucks outlet, because she was driving without her lights turned on, an indicator for impaired driving.
Cacnio told Selver she had consumed no alcohol that night, but he said he detected a faint alcohol odour on her breath and asked her to take a breatha-lyzer test. She blew .009, well below the legal limit of .08.
Selver asked her why she had said she hadn't had any alcohol to drink and she replied she had two margaritas with dinner three hours earlier but "she said she didn't think they counted."
When Selver ran her name through the police computer, he found her riot conviction and arrested her for breaking curfew.
Cacnio's Oldsmobile was towed because her boyfriend, who was with her, didn't have a driver's licence, Selver told the B.C. Provincial Court trial in Vancouver.
While in the back of the police car, she was swearing out the window at her boyfriend, "blaming him for the car being towed," Selver testified.
Cacnio has denied the breach and her case will go to trial later this year.
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