South Wales Police at Merthyr Tydfil arrested a man at around 3am today (September 4) as he made off from his vehicle after committing alleged traffic offences.
A short pursuit on foot led to officers capturing the man who blew 89 in a roadside breath test when the legal limit is 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
He failed to provide a sample and was driving on a provisional licence.
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In addition, the man had no insurance and was driving a vehicle displaying cloned registration plates, police said.
The vehicle was seized and the driver locked up.
To contact police at Merthyr Tydfil, call 101 if the matter is not an emergency. Calls informing the force of an emergency should always be 999, any time of the day or night.
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