A man who travelled from Swansea to Pembrokeshire to buy potatoes is among those fined for breaching coronavirus restrictions.
The 62-year-old was one of 14 people to appear at Carmarthenshire Magistrates' Court, Llanelli, on Tuesday, October 13 for breaking Covid-19 rules.
He was ordered to pay £237 in total.
Each incident took place between March and May this year, with each defendant being caught by officers from Dyfed-Powys Police.
Other breaches of the rules included a man from Merseyside travelling to Powys "for a party", a Swansea woman going "for a spin" to Carmarthenshire and a woman who travelled from the West Midlands to Ceredigion to "visit the beach".
Of the 14 defendants, 10 were ordered to pay £811. These included:
- A Swansea woman, aged 22, who said she "just came out for a spin" when stopped on the A40 in Carmarthen;
- A 38-year-old man, from Wirral in Merseyside, who "went out for a drive" to Welshpool in Powys;
- A Llanelli man, aged 18, who twice refused to go home when police officers saw him with a group of men;
- A man, aged 27, who drove from Wirral, in Merseyside, to go to a party in Newtown, Powys;
- A 28-year-old man who said that he left his Ebbw Vale home to "pick up friends" when he was stopped in Crickhowell;
- An Ebbw Vale woman, aged 20, who said she was "out for a drive" when stopped on the A40 in Powys;
- A man, aged 29, who left his Brecon home to go to a party;
- A 29-year-old woman, from Milford Haven, who refused a police officer's instruction to remove people from her home.
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The remaining defendants were ordered to pay £237, with one ordered to pay £239.
These included:
- A woman from the West Midlands, aged 45, who travelled to Borth and Clarach Bay, in Ceredigion, "to visit the beach".
- A 20-year-old man, from Brecon, who was told four days in a row that he was "away from his household without reasonable excuse".
The defendants were ordered to pay a total of £9,060, which consisted of £7,080 in fines, £1,190 in costs and £790 in victim surcharge.
