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Premium Content Subscriber only An aspiring police officer claimed he didn't see or hear police lights and sirens as he sped away from them, a court has heard. Justin Rene Valery Chapelain told police he didn't know they were behind him when he failed to stop on January 23 in Noosa Heads. Police prosecutor Alison Johnstone said officers followed Chapelain into Viewland Drive before he accelerated up a hill and turned left into Edgar Bennett Avenue without indicating and "accelerated heavily". "Police followed and it pulled rapidly away, police then activated their lights and sirens as the...

Police spot man’s weed stash on way out Jotham Levy was fined for possessing and producing dangerous drugs in Noosa Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Crime 16th Feb 2021 5:00 PM Premium Content Subscriber only A 24-year-old was close to getting away with his weed stash before police spotted it on their walk to the car. Jotham Levy was fined in Noosa Magistrates Court on Tuesday for possessing and producing dangerous drugs. Police prosecutor Alison Johnstone said police went to Levy’s home for an unrelated reason and were leaving when they found a mari...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Coast woman lashed out at nurses and threatened to follow them home after they didn't give her a taxi voucher. Melanie Gay Adams became increasing uncooperative, belligerent and rude towards Nambour Hospital nursing staff as they prepared to discharge her from the short stay unit in the emergency department on November 28 last year. Police prosecutor Alison Johnstone said Adams used obscene and bad language and "demanded" a taxi voucher to get home to Sunrise Beach while waiting for her discharge medication. "Nursing staff and the pharmacist approached �...

She said the 24-year-old told police the damage could have been caused with keys. It came after Menkens caused $1295 in damage to his ex-girlfriend’s television. Sergeant Johnstone said Menkens’ ex-girlfriend had been in Brisbane from January 18 to 24 and arrived home to “deep scratches across the screen”. “She had been driven to Brisbane by … (Menkens) on the 18th of January and later ended up reconciling with a boyfriend,” she said. “The defendant had been advised, he sent abusive text messages to her on the 19th and he stayed over in her unit that night and that’s whe...

The court heard he had previously received three probation orders for property offences in 2013 and 2014. Sgt Johnstone argued Hill should be sentenced to actual jail time. Defence lawyer Bernard Bradley argued his client could instead serve a sentence in the community and receive further rehabilitation. "In my submission, here your honour would quite easily accept that my client's addiction to prescription medication or abuse of prescription medication is wholly responsible and a motive for his breaking into chemists in particular," Mr Bradley said. "This was a serious addiction and it ...