Adele Jones charged over Xanax in Cronulla
A glamorous Reserve Bank employee was found with something she should not have had in her handbag while police were patrolling a dark, secluded car park which is a known drug crime hot spot.
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A glamorous Reserve Bank employee has found out the hard way you cannot self-prescribe medication after police found her in a notorious crime hot spot with a bag of pills in her purse.
Adele Pia Jones, 21, was charged with possessing a restricted substance after police found Xanax in a bag of mixed vitamins inside her handbag on March 10.
Cronulla police happened upon the Sans Souci woman, who works as an executive assistant at the Reserve Bank of Australia, in a dark car with a man and a woman at a known crime hot spot.
“Police were conducting patrols of Don Lucas Reserve in Cronulla, as it is known for drug crime and anti-social behaviour,” court documents stated.
“While conducting these patrols police observed a white Toyota Corolla parked in the far end of the car park in the darkness where there are no streetlights.”
When police searched the Corolla they found a bag of methylamphetamine under the passenger seat and an assortment of pills in a clear plastic bag in Jones’ white handbag.
“(Jones) stated the pills were hers, that she had had them for about one day, that they were xanax and natural vitamin pills and that she is not prescribed Xanax but she uses it for undiagnosed anxiety,” court documents stated.
“None of the three made any admissions to (the methylamphetamine).”
In a recorded interview Jones declined to tell police where she had sourced the Xanax, which weighed 0.44g.
Jones pleaded guilty to the offence at Sutherland Local Court on May 14 and Magistrate Holly Kemp found the offence proven before dismissing the matter without recording a conviction.
In a personal appeal to the court Jones asked Ms Kemp to consider she had never been in trouble with the law before.
“I have a great job working for the government, it was an innocent mistake where I did not mean any harm by having half a Xanax in my bag,” Jones wrote.
Xanax is a Schedule 4 controlled drug which can only be prescribed by a doctor.
