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Subscriber only Despite his young age, a 25-year-old defendant s criminal history was described in court as appalling. Facing the Bundaberg Magistrates Court, Nicholas Stephen Smith pleaded guilty to a total of eight offences committed in May last year. Living in Toowoomba at the time of all offences, he was intercepted by police for a random roadside drug test on May 1 last year. Smith returned a positive result for methamphetamine and Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Just days later on May 3 police asked the defendant to pull over, searched the defendant s vehicle and found 0.33g of methamphetamine as well as a water pipe which had been used.
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Subscriber only Magistrate John Smith has warned a man not to even think about driving until he has a valid Queensland drivers licence or lawful authority in his hands. Travis John Landt, 24, appeared in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Thursday, pleading guilty to one count of driving without a licence disqualified by a court order, and one count of driving while over the no alcohol limit, but not over the general alcohol limit while holding a provisional licence, learner licence or unlicensed. Police Prosecutor Sergeant Grant Klassen said Landt was stopped by police for a random check along Woodgate Rd, Goodwood, on October 3 last year which revealed his licence was disqualified.