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A Coast brickie who stole $600 worth of petrol to fuel his drug addiction and showed police a fake receipt for a stolen jet ski has been fined for the offences.
Craig Evans stole $599.35 of fuel from petrol stations during drive offs between September 11, 2020 and February 5, 2021 and received a stolen jet ski between November 30, 2020 and January 22, 2021.
Evans performed the fuel drive offs on seven occasions between Nambour and Burpengary.
Magistrate Matthew McLaughlin said Evanâs vehicle must have been âthirstyâ to rack up the bill in the short time frame.
He told the court Evans also tried to trick police by showing them a fake receipt for the jet ski that he said he paid $5000 for.
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A Coast man who hit his neighbour with a palm frond and spat in his mouth during an “aggressive argument” will walk free from prison next month.
Lance Davis Essex was sentenced in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Wednesday to nine months in prison after he assaulted his neighbour on May 8 last year.
The court heard Essex had put star pickets on the boundary line of the adjoining properties in Landsborough to stop the victim from driving his car and trailer on his driveway when he parked his car.
Defence lawyer Patrick Meehan said the incident occurred after the victim had confronted Essex about the pickets.
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Subscriber only Our emergency service personnel and security guards are here to keep us safe, but in doing so are subjected to some serious attacks. Last year s wild Australia Day brawl at Eleanor Shipley Park in Moffat Beach displayed some of the worst behaviour towards police. Acting Inspector John Mahony recently told the
Daily police officers involved were used as human punching bags when they tried to break up the brawl. The teenagers abused, attacked and threw rubbish including bottles at the officers as they tried to restrain them. Three police officers were injured in the brawl, with one taken to hospital.
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Subscriber only Our emergency service personnel and security guards are here to keep us safe, but in doing so are subjected to some serious attacks. Last year s wild Australia Day brawl at Eleanor Shipley Park in Moffat Beach displayed some of the worst behaviour towards police. Acting Inspector John Mahony recently told the
Daily police officers involved were used as human punching bags when they tried to break up the brawl. The teenagers abused, attacked and threw rubbish including bottles at the officers as they tried to restrain them. Three police officers were injured in the brawl, with one taken to hospital.
He said according to the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland, drug use increased the risk of crash involvement, and drivers with illicit drugs in their system were 10 times more likely to cause a crash. Drug use worsens your driving through cognitive impairment, which affects your judgment, memory and reaction time, he said. From a woman caught driving with her feet hanging out of the car to a driver found passed out with a cocktail of drugs in his system, here are 10 Coast drivers who were before the court last year for driving with meth in their system.