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A Capricorn Coast mumâs drug offending was exposed when police found incriminating text messages on her mobile phone.
Skye Mcdiarmid, 39, pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court last Thursday to possessing a mobile phone suspected of being used in a drug offence.
The court heard that on March 4, police stopped a vehicle that Mcdiarmid was a passenger in and conducted a search for drugs.
On Mcdiarmidâs mobile phone, officers found several messages that related to the supply of dangerous drugs.
Mcdiarmid, a mother and housekeeper, told Magistrate Jason Schubert that she had previously been âassociated with the wrong crowdâ and she had now âgot away from thatâ for the sake of her children.
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COURT, MARCH 11:
Nathan Reese Herbert unstuck.
The 19 year old, required to have a zero blood alcohol limit, blew 0.028 after police caught him driving on Yeppoon Road on February 5.
The court heard Herbert, a construction worker, had a very limited traffic history.
He was fined $400 and disqualified from driving for three months.
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Nathan Adam Johnson, 20, was caught drink-driving at Yeppoon on January 31.
Johnson, required to have no alcohol in his system, blew 0.030 after police subjected him to a random breath test on Whitman Street.
The court heard Johnson, a roofer, had no history of a like nature.