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Subscriber only A MAN caught carrying a used needle on the street and the remnants of methamphetamine blamed family drama for returning to the heavy drug habit. Gabe Ian Tickner said he had been sober for almost two years when circumstances in his family surrounding a fatal car crash just got to him . Police caught Tickner walking on Hilton Rd at midnight on December 13, last year, carrying a shopping bag with a used syringe and needle in it and two clipseal bags with meth remnants totalling 0.1g.
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Subscriber only A MAN caught carrying a used needle on the street and the remnants of methamphetamine blamed family drama for returning to the heavy drug habit. Gabe Ian Tickner said he had been sober for almost two years when circumstances in his family surrounding a fatal car crash just got to him . Police caught Tickner walking on Hilton Rd at midnight on December 13, last year, carrying a shopping bag with a used syringe and needle in it and two clipseal bags with meth remnants totalling 0.1g.
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Subscriber only A German DJ was detained by border security officers outside Gympie Magistrate Court this morning after being caught with drugs at an illegal rave in the region on January 2. Moritz Alexander Wolf, 27, walked out of the courthouse in Channon St just after 11.15am wearing a black T-shirt and jeans. Five Australian Border Force officials were waiting on the footpath outside the courthouse when he emerged, two of them wearing the official ABF uniform. Australian security officers wait for Wolf outside Gympie Magistrates Court. The ABF officers, four men and one woman, met Wolf next the flag pole at the front of the courthouse and spoke with him for about 30 seconds. Wolf was then seen consulting his lawyer before calmly rejoining the group and disappearing inside the Gympie Police Station.
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Gympie residents are being reminded to remember to lock their homes as unlawful entry crimes remained at a 15-year high in 2020.
Police data shows 208 unlawful entry offences were recorded in the Gympie police division last year, two more than in 2019.
This increase, although small, continued a trend of growing offence number since 2014 when 144 break-ins were reported.
Last year’s figures were also the highest since the 2012 recorded 2005; however they were still well below the rate at the turn of the century, where from 2001-2003 there was an average of 312 beak-ins in the division. Gympie police unlawful entry crime data 2020