PUNISHED: Six drivers who failed random drug tests when pulled over by police received fines and driving disqualifications in Orange Local Court on Monday. FILE PHOTO
SIX drivers were fined and disqualified from driving after appearing in Orange Local Court on drug driving charges on Monday.
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- South Windsor resident, 37-year-old Frances Forsyth, did not appear in court where she was disqualified from driving for three-months and fined $800 after being caught on Chifley Road at Dargan with methamphetamine and cannabis in her system.
- Represented by legal aid solicitor Gerry Stapleton, 44-year-old Namatjira Crescent resident Kevin Robert Goddard was disqualified from driving for three-months and fined $600. He was stopped by police on Bulli Pass South on May 4 where he tested positive for methamphetamine.
- It was the second offence for Rebecca Marie Hoolahan who was also represented by Mr Stapleton. The 48-year-old from Flood Street, Cudal was fined $1200 and disqualified from driving for six months due the prior offence. She tested positive to methamphetamine and cannabis after being stopped by police in Jindalee Avenue at 2.10pm on March 18.
- Keith Robert McAnulty was fined $600 and disqualified from driving for three months after testing positive to methamphetamine after being stopped by police in Anson Street at 12.02pm on March 27. The 36-year-old Bletchington Street resident was also represented by Mr Stapleton who said his client denied purposefully taking methamphetamine but had taken a sex drug the night before.
- Eighteen-year-old Hayden McManus of Jonathon Road also faced a heavy fine for his second offence of driving with an illicit drug present in his blood. Represented by Mr Stapleton, McManus was fined $1200 and disqualified from driving for six months. He tested positive to methamphetamine and cannabis during a random test on Glenroi Avenue at 8.30pm on May 20. A police statement quoted him saying he only smoked cannabis.
- Twenty-year-old Dylan Jake Sonter from South Terrace was also represented by Mr Stapleton. He was fined $600 and disqualified from driving for three months after testing positive to cannabis during a random breath and drug test in Adina Crescent on April 2.
