Toowoomba dumb crims: Benjamin Richard Hudd, Nathan James Ramsey, Christopher Neale Roberts, Kieran Daniel Price-Moss, Daniel John Schafer, Damien Seears, Sean Andrew Remeeus

From people caught with drugs in their buttocks, to YouTubers flouting Covid-19 restrictions, here is a list of 10 of Toowoomba’s dumbest criminals.

Some offenders fronting Toowoomba courts have been subject to some strange, unusual and downright ridiculous circumstances. Here’s a sample of the most recent criminals who should have used their noggin’ a bit more.

Man on curfew and alcohol ban calls cops from the pub at 1am

Toowoomba man Benjamin Richard Hudd was breaching bail in a number of ways when he called police for a favour and got himself locked up for the night.

Hudd had been released from the Toowoomba watch house on Friday with bail conditions which required him to live at a certain address in Oakey, abide by a 10pm to 6am curfew and be under the 0.08 breath/alcohol limit.

Man found with ‘ice’ in his bum while being treated for police dog bite

A 33-year-old offender being treated for police dog bite wounds at Toowoomba Hospital was found with a bag of meth up his bum.

Public masturbator jailed for ‘gross and indecent act’

A Toowoomba man with a penchant for using sticks as sex toys on himself while pleasuring himself in public has been jailed for the indecent acts.

Christopher Neale Roberts had been arrested by police after a foot chase through Toowoomba’s CBD streets on Tuesday and taken into custody.

YouTube ‘star’ fined $4000 for jumping Covid lockdown

A Beaudesert YouTuber who broke Covid-19 lockdown laws by spending a couple of days in Toowoomba has been fined more than $4000 by a Toowoomba magistrate.

Kieran Daniel Price-Moss, who has been involved in a YouTube channel that travels to different regional areas, ignored the directive of Queensland’s Chief Medical Officer to stay home unless for emergency reasons when Beaudesert was ordered into lockdown due to the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in early August.

Man pleads guilty to stealing, attempted fraud after failing to sell stolen nail gun

A Toowoomba man has shot himself in the foot when he attempted to make some quick cash with a stolen nail gun after he failed to find a buyer for the stolen property online.

Daniel John Schafer, 25, appeared in Toowoomba Magistrates Court on Monday where he pleaded guilty to stealing and attempted fraud, as well as driving offences including driving while disqualified.

Dumb and Dumber pay $3000 for cannabis only to get sugar cane mulch

Two men were left disappointed and charged after paying $3000 for a shipment of cannabis only to pick up two cases of sugar cane mulch.

Damien Seears had paid the $3000 cash when ordering what he thought would be 1lb (0.45kg) of cannabis from a South Australian outlet in September last year.

Toowoomba man’s sweet tooth costs him night in lockup and $150 fine

A 26-year-old man with a sweet tooth was left with a sour taste in his mouth after he spent almost 24 hours in custody of the Toowoomba watch house before being convicted and fined $150 for stealing just $15 worth of chocolates.

Sean Andrew Remeeus appeared in Toowoomba Magistrates Court via video link from the watch house on Thursday to plead guilty to two counts of stealing confectionary from Woolworths Grand Central.

Alcohol and drug tester pleads guilty to drink-driving at twice the limit

A random drug and alcohol tester has been fined after being caught drink-driving in Highfields.

However, Justin Robert Charles Clee will still be able to drive his “booze bus” to the testing sites after Magistrate Graham Lee granted him a restricted work licence.

28-year-old man can’t remember drunken wedding brawl that cost him $5000

A 28-year-old man was so drunk at a Wyreema wedding that he had no memory of punching another guest and then causing $3700 damage to the police car he was placed into.

But Owen Keith Somerton accepted the accounts of the events from his wife and other witnesses, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

Green thumb had 100% success rate with five experimental cannabis seeds

A 30-year-old Toowoomba man might have a future in horticulture after having a 100% success rate in growing cannabis plants from seed.

Zane Sydney Lundon told police who turned up at his Kearneys Spring home on January 21 that he had been gifted five cannabis seeds two months earlier and that he had planted them and they had grown.

Originally published as Toowoomba dumb crims: Benjamin Richard Hudd, Nathan James Ramsey, Christopher Neale Roberts, Kieran Daniel Price-Moss, Daniel John Schafer, Damien Seears, Sean Andrew Remeeus