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Premium Content Subscriber only AN intoxicated driver found seated inside his car with blown tyres and vomit both in and outside the car, was waiting for a tow truck when police arrived. He’d been too drunk for police to interview but later admitted to being on a six-day bender. A friend who was seated in the car had already brought him water from a nearby house before the officers arrived, Ipswich Magistrates Court heard. Jessie Jack, 21, from Redbank Plains, pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence at Brassall on January 11; driving when court disqualified; and being in poss...

Premium Content Subscriber only A LATE night triple-0 call sent police to a hotel car park where a security guard reported seeing a man trying to inject something in his arm. When officers arrived just after 2am they came across Shane Hodgkiss seated in a blue Suzuki. Prosecutor Senior Constable Andrew Smith told Ipswich Magistrates Court Hodgkiss was parked outside a Booval hotel. His Suzuki was searched and a clip seal bag with 1.42 grams of the drug ice was found in a black bag under the driver’s seat. A capped syringe with red coloured liquid was found in the centre console.

Premium Content Subscriber only A MAN charged with slapping a female police officer on the arm said he did so because he needed to get outside and vomit. The warehouse supervisor's behaviour this week cost him a hefty fine, after James Allan Bradley Ross pleaded guilty to charges of serious assault on a police officer and obstructing police. Ipswich Magistrates Court heard police had been called to an Ipswich home on March 6 in relation to an earlier incident. Prosecutor Senior Constable Andrew Smith said officers went to a house at Churchill just before 8pm and found a resident bleeding ...

REVEALED: Staff at Florida hotel entered tragic ex-NFL star Vincent Jackson's room twice but thought he was sleeping, so only raised the alarm on the third day Ex-NFL receiver Vincent Jackson may have died days before he was declared deceased at his Tampa-area hotel room earlier this week, it has been revealed On both Saturday and Sunday, hotel staff entered the room, where they saw the 38-year-old Jackson slouched over on the couch, apparently asleep By Monday, after seeing Jackson in the same position, staff called 911. He was pronounced dead later that morning. A cause of death hasn't been...