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A man who claims he grew up around horses, used his whole arm to aggressively slap the hind quarter of a horse towing a carriage and then mooned patrons of a pub who chastised him for his actions.
He was then illuminated by police torches as he urinated in public before fleeing to the riverbank where he was arrested.
Ryan Martin Hayes, 38, pleaded guilty on June 3 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to one count each of animal cruelty, public nuisance near a licensed premises and urinating in public. Ryan Martin Hayes, 38, claims he grew up around horses, used his whole arm to aggressively slap the hind quarter of a clydesdale horse towing a carriage and then mooned patrons of the Oxford Hotel who chastised him for his actions. He was then illuminated by police torches as he urinated in public before fleeing to the riverbank where he was then arrested.
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Subscriber only Four months pre-sentence custody was deemed time enough for a 50-year-old man who had supplied methamphetamine to others over a nine month period. If you hadn t done four months you d be going to jail, Judge Deborah Richards told Beven Wayne Combarngo. Police had seized Combarngo s mobile phone during a search on May 23, 2019, and found a number of drug supply messages, Toowoomba District Court heard. He conceded that he referred to meth in the messages as speed or rock , Crown prosecutor Mel Wilson said. The evidence pointed to the then 48 and 49-year-old having arranged to supply meth on about 22 occasions to about nine people between March and December 2019 in St George, she said.
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Leann Tracy Jaraminas, 45, pleaded guilty on March 5 in Rockhampton District Court to 11 counts of supplying a dangerous drug.
Crown prosecutor Alana Murray said Jaraminas’s supplies were detected while police were listening to the phone calls of convicted Biloela drug traffickers Beau Rasmussen and Erin Dawn Green.
Ms Murray said the supplies were an escalation in Jaraminas’ offending as she had one conviction of supply and one of produce a dangerous drug on her nine-page criminal record, both for marijuana.
The supplies Jaraminas made to Green in 2019 were mostly personal use amounts of marijuana along with some methamphetamines and one count for ecstasy.
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Subscriber only A Laidley man who drove five times over the legal alcohol limit to buy nappies has been told his repeat offence would be the last before a prison sentence. Mark Alexander Aaron Blasdall was caught driving in Laidley on November 28 not only for drunk driving, but also driving without a licence due to a court disqualification. In the Gatton Magistrates Court on Monday, February 22, police prosecutor senior sergeant Al Windsor said police intercepted Blasdall driving on Cunningham Ave, Laidley. After conducting an RBT on, on November 28, 2020, police conveyed Blasdall to the Laidley Police Station where he submitted a specimen of breath for analysis.
POLICE are aiming to target drug addiction from an early age, as part of a program on harm minimisation. Sergeant Nadine Webster from the Ipswich Crime Prevention Unit along with Paramedic Dwayne Simpson and representatives from Headspace, spoke to students from Lowood State High School about drug and alcohol addiction. The Year 9 Harm Minimisation Methamphetamine Project was successfully facilitated in three secondary schools in 2018, leading Sergeant Webster to bring it to four other schools this year. The Lowood program was delivered on Monday December 7, and was regarded by staff and students as being a positive program for the kids. Sergeant Webster told the