B.C. Mountie faces drunk driving charges

Charges have now been laid against a Vancouver-based Mountie who was arrested for drunk driving twice in just over a month.

The first incident happened on Oct. 3 after an accident on the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge in Vancouver in which two people were hurt.

The second occurred Nov. 7 when the officer was stopped near a beach on the west side of Vancouver.

Vernon James Wilson now faces a total of nine charges, including impaired driving, two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm, two counts of causing an accident resulting in bodily harm and two counts of dangerous driving.

Wilson, 55, was also charged with driving while prohibited in the November incident after he'd been banned from driving following the October crash.

Wilson, who has been on the force for 16 years, was the third Mountie to be arrested for drunk driving in three months in B.C. between October and late December.