A mum has been slapped with a fine after she chose to take her covid breach infringement to court. Annalyce J Elizabeth Truswell pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday to one charge of failing to comply with a Covid-19 public health direction. On April 8 last year Truswell contacted police after 6pm to report her partner and a friend were missing at Mt Walsh National Park near Biggenden. Police attended and found Truswell in a car as well as three other people, including the reported missing people who had been found. The court heard Truswell had travelled 129km from her home address at Maryborough in breach of the covid restrictions of non-essential travel.
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Subscriber only A low speed run from police has landed a man in his 60s with a substantial fine and his licence disqualified for two years. Cary Neil Drake pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday to one count of evasion and another charge of wilful damage. On July 9 last year police were doing patrols in Avoca looking for a wanted person who had been linked to the area. During their patrols officers noticed a parked vehicle with two people inside. Drake was in the driver s seat while the person in the passenger seat was believed to be the wanted person.
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Subscriber only A man has been refused bail after he allegedly threatened to burn down his partner s home in an act of alleged domestic violence. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday by videolink from the Bundaberg Watch House. He is facing a number of offences include two counts of aggravated domestic violence order breaches. The man made an application for bail which was opposed by the prosecution. The court heard the man was also charged with public nuisance after he allegedly started yelling and threatening witnesses. Police prosecutor Senior Constable Tina Bland told the court witnesses told police the man appeared heavily intoxicated at the time.
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Subscriber only A young woman has learnt the hard way the importance of keeping track of how much you drink before you get behind the wheel after crashing her car on a residential street. Brodie-Lee Louise Reardon, 23, pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Thursday to driving under the influence of liquor. At 10.55pm on November 18 police were called to a crash on Sims Rd where a car had left the road and collided with brick garden edging. Police spoke with Reardon who told them she owned the car and was the driver. Reardon told police she was driving back home from the East End Hotel and was eating a sausage roll at the time of the incident.