Pro boxer and personal trainer Harris Kara-Diver caught driving with cocaine in system at Bondi

A pro boxer was caught driving with cocaine in his system after police targeting dial-a-dealer crime pulled him over at Bondi. Now he has learned his fate. Here’s what happened.

Pro boxer Harris Kara-Diver outside Waverley Court.

A Waverley southpaw light heavyweight pro boxer was caught driving with cocaine in his system after being pulled over at Bondi.

Harris Brian Kara-Diver faced Waverley Local Court for sentence on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to driving with an illicit drug in his system.

Magistrate Stephen Barlow disqualified the 26-year-old from holding a driver’s licence for six months and fined him $750 with a conviction.

Court documents state police were targeting dial-a-dealer crime in the eastern suburbs and pulled over Kara-Diver’s Audi Q5 along Bondi Rd about 5pm on November 29.

A roadside oral fluid test revealed cocaine in Kara-Diver’s system and he was arrested and taken to Waverley Police Station, police facts state.

Kara-Diver wanted to keep his driver’s licence for work purposes.

At court Kara-Diver’s lawyer Jermaine Corban argued his client had used cocaine two days before he was pulled over and has not consumed any drugs or alcohol since then.

Mr Corban said he was a boxer and a personal trainer, trying to turn his life around.

“He won’t be able to be a fruitful member of society if convicted,” he said.

Kara-Diver had been seeing a psychologist and while he had a “shocking” driving record, he was on a real path to rehabilitation, Mr Corban said.

Mr Barlow said he did not believe Kara-Diver had consumed the cocaine two days before, this was his third drug driving matter and the offence occurred in the same year he was pulled over for dealing drugs.

“How could I not convict him,” he said.

“The reality is when you drive with drugs, particularly cocaine, in your system there are legal consequences,’’ he said.

Mr Barlow encouraged Kara-Diver to continue his rehabilitation.

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