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A Triple-0 caller confessed to the operator that the car he was driving was stolen.
On Friday last week, Anakie police received a call at 3.15am from a stranded motorist, who reported a single-vehicle car crash on the Capricorn Highway at Anakie.
The teenage boy had lost control of the vehicle while travelling west and ended up stuck in bushland, near Withersfield Road, about 50km west of Emerald.
Police claimed he admitted to stealing the car earlier that morning.
Officers from Anakie Police Station attended the scene and found the crashed car, which had been taken during an alleged unlawful entry into an Emerald business.
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A syringe with blood inside, marijuana capsule and methamphetamines were just a few things police found after executing a search warrant at a home in Sapphire Central.
Stephanie Lee Mackay, 28, pleaded guilty in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on January 7 to two counts of possessing dangerous drugs, and one count each of fail to properly dispose of needle and syringe and possess utensils or pipes that had been used.
Police prosecutor Julie Marsden said police executed a search warrant at an address in Sapphire Central at 11.25am on November 6, 2020.
Ms Marsden said inside Mackay’s bedroom, police found a number of items suspected of having been used in connection with drugs, including several clip seal bags, a pair of scissors with black residue on the tips and another pair of scissors with black residue outside the bedroom door.