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Subscriber only A Gladstone woman got into an argument with a magistrate after claiming she didn t know drugs would still be in her saliva a day after using them. Kerry Eileen Thomas, 32, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court on January 12 to drug-driving. The court heard that on November 29 at Clinton, Thomas was stopped by police where she tested positive for drugs while she had four children in the car. Further tests showed the presence of marijuana in her system. Self-represented, Thomas told the court she didn t smoke that day and that she had smoked the day before. I didn t realise the next day when I drove it was still in my salvia, she said.
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Subscriber only A Gladstone woman told police she d been around other people smoking weed when she tested positive for drugs. Emma Louise Matheson, 22, was stopped on Palm Dr on September 21, at the time on a provisional licence. She tested positive to a road side drug test but made no admissions to drug use, instead told police she had been around other people smoking weed. Further analysis showed the presence of marijuana. Matheson, self-represented, pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court on Tuesday to drug driving. She was fined $400 and disqualified from driving for three months.
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