Coronavirus NSW live updates: Park bench sleeper, social gatherers fined
Two serial offenders in the western Sydney suburb of Mount Druitt are among those fined $1000 under social distancing laws. LIVE COVERAGE
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A man found asleep in public and another sitting on a park bench are among the latest people fined for breaching coronavirus isolation in NSW.
Police gave a man a warning after seeing him in a Mount Druitt shopping mall yesterday, then found him asleep on a nearby bench two hours later, handing him a $1000 on-the-spot fine.
On the same patrol police fined a 20-year-old man found sitting at a picnic table in Mount Druitt when they discovered he had repeatedly been warned about being outside without a reasonable excuse.
Two men in their 20s were fined for being at the Lake Macquarie home of two women, with police saying there had previously been reports of social gatherings in the house.
Police also charged an alleged drink driver with failing to self-isolate after he failed a breath test on the Central Coast yesterday then failed to give a reasonable excuse for being out.
Chifley police fined a 41-year-old man for walking along the street in Bathurst “who gave several different reasons for being out of his home”.
Police have now fined 136 people since the new restrictions were brought in on March 17.