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Premium Content Subscriber only An Ipswich court has heard a man caught with an ice stash hidden in his shoe had taken steps to shake his drug addiction prior to facing sentence this week. Ethan Ellison was said to have taken part in the Court Link program designed to help defendants tackle the issues that often underlie their offending. After completing the program with positive results, Ethan Ernest Ellison, 27, from Bundamba, pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to eight charges inclu...

Premium Content Subscriber only A MAN who fled police in his car and then on foot was later found hiding on the roof of a house by the dog squad. Going before Ipswich Magistrates Court for sentence, Aiden Michael Kinnane, 28, pleaded guilty to nine charges with eight of them occurring on February 11 this year. The charges include failing to stop for police; evading police; driving when drug positive; dangerous operation of a motor vehicle when adversely affected; obstruct police; trespass; and ...

Premium Content Subscriber only A ROSEWOOD man who climbed onto a roof of a strangers house and began throwing down roof tiles also took part in service station break-ins that netted in excess of $25,000 in cigarettes. Appearing for sentence from jail via video-link, Troy John Currey, 33, pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to 16 offences including enter premises and stealing, serious assault; receiving; going armed in public; wilful damage; driving when disqualified; and unlawful use...

Premium Content Subscriber only A WOMAN with a mounting history of stealing clothes, cosmetics and alcohol has been handed a 100-day jail term this week. Stephanie-Dawn Mackenzie’s defence lawyer was at loss to explain her actions when appearing before the Ipswich Magistrates Court for sentence. Mackenzie, 24, from Goodna, pleaded guilty to 11 charges including nine charges of stealing and two for failing to appear at court. She appeared from jail via video-link. Prosecutor Sergeant Molin...

Premium Content Subscriber only A woman who assaulted a paramedic, a nurse and a police officer in separate incidents later said that she had a major problem with alcohol consumption. Nearly three years after the first of the drunken incidents, Christine Gillies went before Ipswich Magistrates Court for sentence. Christine Estelle Gillies, 41, from Atkinsons Dam, pleaded guilty to nine offences including two charges of serious assault/resist public officers while adversely affected by an intoxi...

Premium Content Subscriber only Nicholas Harvey was charged with drug offences after police found more than 30 marijuana plants. Appearing before Ipswich Magistrates Court, the offender Nicholas Joseph Harvey, 33, a delivery driver, pleaded guilty to producing dangerous drugs at Rosewood; possession of dangerous drugs; possession of drug utensils; possession of anything used in a drug offence; and driving when drug positive. Prosecutor Sergeant Molinaro said police went to Harvey’s house on ...

Premium Content Subscriber only A FINGERPRINT on an instruction booklet about cooking up methylamphetamine found in a prisoner’s jail cell was enough to bring him before a court two decades later. Except the former prisoner was 3500kms away from Ipswich Magistrates Court when he appeared by phone on Friday to plead guilty to the charge from 20 years ago. The court heard that Benjamin Bond had since reformed, was a qualified baker, with a lot of water passing under the bridge since the 2000...

Premium Content Subscriber only A STROPPY shopper who lost his cool with another customer in a nasty temper tantrum, took off his shirt and tried to fight the man inside a local store. Then when a woman tried to calm him down, the bad-tempered lad crashed his hand down hard onto the self-checkout register breaking it. It was another incident of bad behaviour by the offender Dane Allen whose temper had previously brought him before the courts. Appearing from jail via-video link for sentence, Dan...

Premium Content Subscriber only A CAR thief shunted a Ford Falcon into the wall of the garage when confronted by the cars owner as he fled. As thief Ajay Hughes reversed down the drive and sped away from the scene, he fishtailed the stolen green Ford down the road and the noise brought residents out onto the Laidley street. One of the bystanders threw a rock that smashed the rear windscreen, Ipswich Magistrates Court heard on Friday. Ajay Daniel Hughes, 31, a dad of four from Laidley, appea...

Premium Content Subscriber only COVERT cameras filmed the reckless antics of hoons doing burnouts at Swanbank as onlookers cheered them on. When another of the drivers to be caught in the sting went before an Ipswich court, police said they recorded three of the mans passengers hanging out of the cars open windows, with one dragging his left leg on the road when the grey Ford slid sideways. Cameron Danielle was brought in from jail to appear in the dock before the Ipswich Magistrates Court f...