Pest banned for life, fined $1000 after Imbil incident
An 63-year-old Imbil man has been banned from the town’s drinking venue and a Gympie driver’s car has been impounded for three months after he did a burnout in the Mary Valley, in a police crackdown on pests, drink drivers and hoons. Details:
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Hoons, drink drivers and pests have felt the long arm of the law in the Mary Valley in recent weeks, following multiple complaints to police.
In Imbil, a 63-year-old man was banned from a local licensed venue and fined almost $1000 for being a public nuisance, after an alleged incident at the venue on February 7.
Just up the road in Amamoor, a 29-year-old Gympie man was caught doing a burnout on Dobson Road on February 8, and fined $516 and lost his car for three months.
On February 9, police were called to a property on the Mary Valley Road at Brooloo in regards to a neighbourhood dispute.
When they got there they stopped a vehicle and a 54-year-old man blew over the legal limit, registering a blood alcohol concentration of 0.09 per cent at the Gympie police station.
He will face Gympie court on Thursday, March 6.
A roadside breath test at Imbil busted another drink driver on February 24, when a 52-year-old Kandanga man was found to be driving more than three times the limit, at 0.167 per cent.
He will face Gympie court on March 20.
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