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Subscriber only A Fraser Coast mum pushed police while they were trying to arrest her boyfriend for yelling obscenities from a hotel balcony and throwing tables and chairs at a popular Urangan restaurant. In Hervey Bay Magistrates Court on Thursday, Martika Mariah Mooney pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing police on November 20 last year. The court heart police were called to The Dock Bar and Restaurant at Mantra Resort in Urangan in relation to reports a male patron was throwing tables and chairs. The prosecution said the man was standing on a balcony at the top of the hotel complex as police arrived, yelling obscenities and taunting the officers.
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A Fraser Coast man was fined a total of $1400 and disqualified from driving for various drug related offences.
Zacariah Saimoun was charged and pleaded guilty to possessing a dangerous drug, namely cannabis; unlawfully possessing a thing, namely a bong or pipe to be used in connection with a dangerous drug; and driving with a relevant drug present in his saliva, on two separate occasions.
The court heard just after midnight on December 11 2020, Saimoun was driving at Nikenbah when police pulled him over to search for suspected dangerous drugs.
“Police found a plastic container with a small amount of leafy material,” the prosecution said.
Police alleged North wouldn t stop twerking, doing handstands and stumbling around the establishment. North then allegedly jumped onto the food counter and continued to twerk as police officers entered and tried to lock herself in the public bathroom, before she was arrested. The court heard the following day North was also charged with being a public nuisance outside the Criterion Hotel Dalby, where she later allegedly assaulted and obstructed police and damaged a watch-house cell. North did not attend Dalby Magistrates Court on December 15 as scheduled, and instead sent a letter instructing she would plead guilty to all seven charges.