Woman charged for letting boy drive van full of kids to the shops

Police were called to a busy Darling Downs shopping centre after reports of a 15-year-old boy driving a van loaded with kids and at least one adult. He topped it off by parking in a disabled bay.

A 37-year-old woman has been charge for letting a 15-year-old boy drive her to the shops.

A MERINGANDAN West woman will face the Magistrate after she let a 15-year-old boy drive her and some children to the shops.

Highfields Senior Sergeant Stephen Gillinder said a member of the public phoned police after they saw the boy driving a Toyota HiAce van containing several passengers at the Highfields Village Shopping Centre on April 30.

Police located the van parked illegally in the Disability parking bay.

They charged the 37-year old with permitting another to drive while unlicensed and fined her $666 for parking in disabled parking zone and driving a defective vehicle.

She will front the Toowoomba Magistrates Court later this month.

The boy was dealt with under the provisions of the Youth Justice Act.

In unrelated matters, police executed a search warrant at Greenway Court address in Highfields later that day, where they located a cannabis plant, a quantity of dried cannabis and drug utensils.

Police charged a 64-year-old Highfields man with producing dangerous drugs, possessing dangerous drugs and possessing utensils to appear in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court in May.

An 18-year-old man was charged with possessing dangerous drugs and utensils and accepted drug diversion.

In an unrelated matter, police intercepted a 17-year-old Toowoomba boy driving a Holden Commodore while drug-affected on the New England Highway, on April 28.

He was charged with drugged driving and will appear in the Toowoomba Children’s Court.

Originally published as Woman charged for letting boy drive van full of kids to the shops