Former serviceman blames pain and PTS medication for his positive meth reading

Despite pleading guilty to driving with ice in his system, the father of one said the street drug was not to blame.

Stanthorpe man blames pain meds for meth charge

A Stanthorpe father caught drug driving claims it was medication for pain and post traumatic stress and not meth that landed him in hot water.

Glen Leon Nocente stood on crutches as he fronted Stanthorpe Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty to driving while a drug was present in his saliva.

Police pulled over the 43-year-old on Lock Street on October 11 where he gave a positive reading for methamphetamine.

Defence lawyer Clare Hine told the court Nocente served in the Australian Army between 1998 and 2013 and now suffers from PTSD and hearing loss due to the explosives he encountered during his deployment.

Ms Hine added her client took a high level of prescribed medication as a result and he blamed those for his reading.

Nocente pleaded guilty to driving with methamphetamines in his system.

He was fined $350 and disqualified from driving for one month.

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