Listen Out drug charges: Courtney Crimston guilty of drug driving after festival
One wild night at a Sydney dance music festival last year has left a teenager with a 12-month hangover after she was caught drug driving with MDMA in her system two days later.
One wild night at a Sydney dance music festival last year has left a teenager with a 12-month hangover after she was caught drug driving with MDMA in her system two days later.
Miranda woman Courtney Crimston, 19, was found guilty of drug driving after a vehicle stop in Sylvania two days after she attended the Listen Out festival at Centennial Park on September 29 last year.
Sutherland Local Court Magistrate Jayeann Carney sentenced the childcare worker to a 12-month conditional release order without conviction.
“The accused was subjected to an oral fluid test, which subsequently produced a positive detection for methamphetamine,” the agreed police facts read.
“Police asked if she had taken any drugs, to which she said “I had two MDMA (tablets) at the Listen Out festival on the weekend.”
NSW Police charged 159 people with drug-related offences at Listen Out last year, which took place two weeks after two people died at hardstyle music festival Defqon 1 in Penrith.
Superintendent Karen McCarthy from Surry Hills police said at the time festival attendees were generally “well-behaved”.
“However there appears to be a small section of the community that continues to possess and deal in illegal substances, despite our warnings,” Supt McCarthy said.
Crimston is one of several young women paying the price for dabbling in drugs at festivals in recent months.
Last week Condell Park woman Tina Pham, 18, was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order including 80 hours of community service after she smuggled 181 MDMA caps into the Knockout Games Of Destiny dance festival in Sydney Olympic Park in 2017.
Trisha Nguyen, 19, will be sentenced on February 5 after she pleaded guilty to wrapping 200 MDMA caps in several condoms and concealing them inside her body at the Midnight Mafia dance party in May 2018.
Crimston was less than 3km from her home when she was pulled over at 11am on October 1 and subsequently arrested.
Forensic analysis confirmed Crimston was driving with 3,4 methylenedioxymethelamphetamine – or MDMA – in her blood.
The green P-plater attended the Traffic Offenders Rehabilitation Program, where she told her supervisor she realised her offence was “a serious matter”.
“I will learn from my mistake,” Crimston wrote.
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