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Subscriber only Staff and security at a Coast RSL were left alarmed and worried for their health after a drunk woman claimed to have COVID-19 and refused to the leave the club. Leanne Isabel Sargeant, 51, was found bleeding on the ground outside Nambour RSL after security guards blocking her from entering were forced to palm her away. The Maroochydore woman had been kicked out of the club after she repeatedly told staff she was infected with COVID-19, just before 11pm on January 9. The guards had called police and gave them a description of a drunk, threatening lady who had been at the venue for several hours and was refusing to leave, the Nambour Magistrates Court heard.
He said according to the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland, drug use increased the risk of crash involvement, and drivers with illicit drugs in their system were 10 times more likely to cause a crash. Drug use worsens your driving through cognitive impairment, which affects your judgment, memory and reaction time, he said. From a woman caught driving with her feet hanging out of the car to a driver found passed out with a cocktail of drugs in his system, here are 10 Coast drivers who were before the court last year for driving with meth in their system.
Paul Ejner Thomsen, 42, was found driving with traces of methamphetamine and marijuana in his saliva when police stopped him on Matthew St in Nambour on September 9 last year. He told police he had smoked meth that morning and was driving to a friend s place. Thomsen pleaded guilty in Nambour Magistrates Court on Monday to driving with a relevant drug in his saliva and was fined $400 and disqualified from driving for one month.
Jason Troy Taylor, 47, tested to positive to a roadside drug test when he was stopped on the Bruce Highway in Woombye on November 8. Taylor said he had used methamphetamine.
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Subscriber only An elderly man who broke into a car and stole $170 cash was busted when a red light slowed his getaway. Propped up by his walking stick, Alexander Forsyth faced the Nambour Magistrates Court on Monday. He pleaded guilty to unlawful entry of a vehicle to committing an indictable offence. The 68-year-old retiree had stolen cash from an unlocked car parked near a construction site where the victim was working in Nambour on December 22. Forsyth had opened the car from the driver s side, found the victim s wallet with the cash inside and pocketed it before driving off in his own car.