A woman who was caught driving with methamphetamine in her system was disqualified from driving for six months and was fined $660 last Monday.
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Hayley Byrne, 25, of Waratah Avenue, did not appear in in Orange Local Court to be sentenced for the Christmas Eve offence.
It was not the first time she has been charged with driving with an illicit drug in her system.
Byrne was also fined $220 for driving with an expired driver’s licence.
According to police facts, Byrne had a child in the vehicle when she was stopped for a breath and drug test in Moulder Street at 6.30pm on December 24.
Licence checks revealed her driver’s licence had been cancelled after a disqualification period ended on May 10 and her licence then expired on July 15.
Byrne was arrested after testing positive to methamphetamine in the drug test.
Christopher Wesley Gore, 32, of Tallwood Road, Forest Reefs was also sentenced in Orange Local Court for driving with methamphetamine in his system.
Gore represented himself in court and was disqualified from driving for three months and was convicted without further penalty.
You might want to rethink your lifestyle and meth habit if you want to continue to live at Forest Reefs.
- Magistrate David Day
It was his first offence of driving with an illicit drug present in his blood.
Gore was driving a silver Nissan Navara along the Mitchell Highway when police stopped him near the intersection with Dairy Creek Road at 6.25pm on October 15.
According to police facts, Gore was on his green Ps (provisional two licence) when he was stopped by police and his vehicle registration had expired.
After he tested positive to methamphetamine in the road-side drug test he was arrested and taken to Orange Police Station for a second test.
Gore appeared in court before magistrate David Day and had pleaded guilty to the charge in February.
“It’s not an under the influence charge, it’s just the mere presence of the drug,” Mr Day said.
“You might want to rethink your lifestyle and meth habit if you want to continue to live at Forest Reefs.”
Mr Day said Gore had a prior driving matter on his record from many years ago.