Callide mine worker given drug warning

“You’ve got good work and you don’t have an extensive history – don’t spoil things,” the 25-year-old woman was told.

A Central Queensland mine worker has been given a warning by a magistrate. Generic file photo.

A young Central Queensland mine worker with a history of drug offending has been given a wake-up call by a magistrate after she was caught drug-driving.

Sallie Anne Heid, 25, pleaded guilty in Biloela Magistrates Court on July 28 to drug-driving.

The court heard that police initially detected Heid speeding on the Dawson Highway at Biloela on the morning of May 18.

After a drug test, Heid returned a positive to marijuana.

The court was told that Heid had no drug offending on her traffic history, but she was previously convicted of possessing dangerous drugs in 2014.

Heid, representing herself in court, told Magistrate Philippa Beckinsale that she was a trainee operator at Callide Mine.

Ms Beckinsale asked: “Don’t mines have a pretty strict policy about drugs?”

Heid acknowledged that they did, and Ms Beckinsale said: “Well that should be a reason as well to steer clear (of drugs).

“You don’t need to have drugs in your life.

“You’ve got good work and you don’t have an extensive history – don’t spoil things.”

Ms Beckinsale fined Heid $350 and disqualified her from driving for one month.