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A MAN launched a barrage of abuse at police when a family friend was injured in an alleged coward’s punch.
Amaru Ngatuakana was arrested and later charged with two offences following the incident in a hotel car park on March 6.
He was told by the magistrate it was “a great shame” his behaviour that night had brought him before the court for the first time.
Amaru Ngatuakana, 45, from South Ripley, pleaded guilty to committing public nuisance in the vicinity of licensed premises in Yamanto
; and obstructing a police officer in a public place when adversely affected by alcohol.
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AN intoxicated driver found seated inside his car with blown tyres and vomit both in and outside the car, was waiting for a tow truck when police arrived.
Heâd been too drunk for police to interview but later admitted to being on a six-day bender.
A friend who was seated in the car had already brought him water from a nearby house before the officers arrived, Ipswich Magistrates Court heard.
Jessie Jack, 21, from Redbank Plains, pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence at Brassall on January 11; driving when court disqualified; and being in possession of a dangerous drug.
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Subscriber only WHEN a neighbour s friendly chocolate brown labrador wandered into the yard, Daniel Myers decided he would claim it as his own. By coincidence, Myers was moving out of his rented house that day, and he took the dog with him. Several days later the worried owner was shown photographs posted on a social media site and recognised her missing dog. Police were contacted and when officers went to Myers new house the labrador was found there too, an Ipswich court heard this week. Going before Ipswich Magistrates Court for sentence Daniel John Myers, 32, of Raceview, pleaded guilty to stealing the labrador at Redbank Plains between January 8 and January 21.
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Subscriber only A BLUE tongue lizard was the apparent trigger for a domestic dispute in which a toddler was accidentally injured after being caught up in an argument between the parents. The child s father was warned by a clearly unimpressed Ipswich magistrate how close he had come to going into jail as a result of his behaviour towards his then-heavily pregnant wife. The 29-year-old man pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to breaching a domestic violence protection order at Collingwood Park on February 21. Prosecutor Senior Constable Narelle Lowe said police were called to a home at 3.30pm following a report of an argument between the pair regarding the catching of a blue-tongue lizard.
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Subscriber only A MAN charged with slapping a female police officer on the arm said he did so because he needed to get outside and vomit. The warehouse supervisor s behaviour this week cost him a hefty fine, after James Allan Bradley Ross pleaded guilty to charges of serious assault on a police officer and obstructing police. Ipswich Magistrates Court heard police had been called to an Ipswich home on March 6 in relation to an earlier incident. Prosecutor Senior Constable Andrew Smith said officers went to a house at Churchill just before 8pm and found a resident bleeding on the face and with blood on the ground.