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In a late night attempt to escape from the police, a 27-year-old repeat offender sped through the McDonaldâs drive-through in Gympie, narrowly missing police officers and mounting a fence along the Bruce Highway.
Wade Stanley Knox, 27, pleaded guilty to the dangerous operation of a vehicle at McDonaldâs on February 28,2021, as well as 14 other charges in Gympie Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Some of the other charges Knox pleaded guilty to included two of possessing dangerous drugs, four counts of unlicensed driving, three stealing offences and failing to dispose of a needle.
It was at 10:20pm that night when Knox was approached by police on foot at the Gympie McDonaldâs drive-through.
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Subscriber only A 21-year-old Calico Creek woman who hindered police officers efforts to arrest her partner outside a popular Gympie hotel has been fined for her interference. Gympie Magistrates Court heard Tailyce Jamie Calman was at the Queenslander Hotel on February 12 when the man she was with became violent outside the hotel, and banged his head against the glass of a nearby vehicle. When police tried to subdue him, Calman refused to move away. At one point when the man had collapsed into a sitting position, Calman was almost standing on top of officers , Gympie s police prosecutor said.
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A 40-year-old father of three who “smoked a joint” before trying to drive unlicensed over the Queensland border has copped a $350 fine for his efforts.
Darryl John Trommler, whose listed place of residence was Tin Can Bay, was pulled over at Texas by Queensland police who were patrolling the state’s border during a period of COVD-19 border restrictions on November 18 last year.
Gympie’s police prosecutor told the Gympie Magistrates Court the 40-year-old pulled out an 18-plus card as identification, and during the course of the interview, told officers he had “smoked a joint” only 30 minutes before arriving at the border.
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A Gympie region man will spend the next six weeks in jail after he was caught with marijuana only four months after being convicted of growing the illegal drug.
James Justin John Wickmann was caught with 31g of the plant when police executed a search warrant at his home at The Palms on March 10.
Gympie Magistrates Court heard Wickmann told officers he had the drug and a bong in his house but their search also turned up clip-seal bags containing marijuana in a white plastic container, and another small container with chopped marijuana.
Wickmann had been in Gympie District Court only four months earlier to plead guilty to multiple charges, including producing the dangerous drug.