The man has been charged with 14 domestic violence offences in southeast Queensland including strangulation, deprivation of liberty and assault occasioning bodily harm.
Man with ‘brain eating disease’ fined for violent public threats
Crime by Elizabeth Neil
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Subscriber only A 47-year-old Gympie man suffering from a brain disorder could be heard threatening and hurling abuse at a Gympie Regional Council ranger outside a coffee shop in Mary St. Brent Aaron Wickham pleaded guilty in Gympie Magistrates Court on Monday to charges of public nuisance and for threatening to kill a council ranger, after he reacted viciously when approached by two rangers in March 2021. Police prosecutor Barry Stevens said Wickham acted aggressively towards the rangers, on March 3 and March 11. Wickham was approached by two council rangers the first time, after he was seen holding a dog between his legs while sitting at a table outside a coffee shop in Mary St, raising suspicions the dog was unleashed in public.
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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.
Multiple drug charges land mother of three in jail A woman was sentenced to nine months jail by the Gympie Magistrates Court on Thursday for 29 offences, most of them drug related.
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A woman was sentenced to nine months jail by the Gympie Magistrates Court on Thursday for 29 offences, most of them drug related.
Zoe Renea Zelow, 39, appeared in custody via video link and was granted immediate parole.
She pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle without a licence, two counts of stealing after a previous conviction, 11 counts of possessing a dangerous drug, four counts of possessing a utensil that had been used, four counts of failing to dispose of a needle and syringe, possessing property suspected of having been acquired for the purpose of committing a drug offence, failing to appear, three counts of breaching a bail condition, driving with a drug present in saliva, an offence involving