By JOLENE OGLE
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to serve one month in jail after pleading guilty to six drug charges at Noosa Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
Rory Nigel King appeared charged with five counts of supplying a dangerous drug and one count of possessing a dangerous drug.
The court heard King had a criminal history including five previous convictions for drug-related offences and for breaching parole.
King was sentenced to six months’ jail for each offence, to be served concurrently. The sentence was reduced to one month with a parole date of 23 October.
Drink driving
A 30-year-old woman has been disqualified from driving for almost four years after pleading guilty to four traffic-related charges in Noosa Magistrates’ Court.
Rebecca Leigh Crimmins appeared in court on Tuesday charged with two counts of drink driving and two counts of driving with a disqualified licence.
Crimmins was caught drink-driving on 5 June this year, when she tried to avoid a random breath testing site by doing a u-turn.
Crimmins was driving on a provisional licence at the time and blew a .39 per cent blood alcohol content (BAC).
Seventeen days later on 22 June, Crimmins was caught driving again with a BAC of .133 per cent.
The court heard Crimmins had previously been caught drink-driving in 2004 with a BAC of .06 per cent, .144 per cent BAC in 2009 and .129 per cent in 2014.
According to Crimmins’ defence lawyer, Crimmins suffers from a number of medical and mental health issues, but was keen to address her problems and had attended the safe driving awareness program.
Crimmins was disqualified from driving for three years and nine months, ordered to serve three, three-month jail sentences, wholly suspended for 12 months, and 12 months’ probation with court ordered alcohol counselling.
