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Not only did Aleta Marie Songoro drive drunk without a licence, she also refused to leave a licensed venue in Rockhampton’s CBD.
Songoro pleaded guilty on May 24 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to one count each of failing to leave a licensed premises, obstruct police in a licensed premises in public, failing to provide identifying particulars, drink driving and driving without a licence.
Police prosecutor Clancy Fox said police were patrolling the Safe Night Precinct on March 27 when a security guard indicated a person refusing to leave the Giddy Goat Nightclub.
He said police found Songoro at the bar and told her to leave, which she refused.
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Whitsunday Police officer in charge sergeant Nathan Blain said police had arrested and charged five people in the past week for committing public nuisance in the Safe Night Precinct, and would continue to take a “high vigilance” approach to such behaviour in a bid to “curb assault rates”.
The five arrests Sgt Blain referred to were in addition to the following five men who appeared Proserpine Magistrates Court on public nuisance charges.
Euan Wright pleaded guilty in the Proserpine court on Monday, to committing public nuisance near a licensed premises and failing to leave a licensed premises, following an incident at Mama Africa nightclub.
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Metal detector wanding trial at Gold Coast
Police have seized two weapons in the first weekend of a new metal detector wanding trial on the Gold Coast.
As part of the weekend enforcement action commencing on Friday night, police scanned 116 people in the Safe Night Precincts of Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach.
Gold Coast District Acting Chief Superintendent Rhys Wildman said the trial was a preventative strategy designed to reduce knife crime on the Gold Coast.
“Officers are using the scanning device to randomly and quickly check if a person within the Safe Night Precinct is armed with a dangerous weapon in public,” Acting Chief Superintendent Wildman said.