From pub sessions to long-time offenders, these are the people who found themselves on the wrong side of the law on the Gold Coast.

Lance Christian Larsen

(2019)

The plasterer was caught drunk behind the wheel for the 11th time in December 2018.

Caught with a blood alcohol reading of 0.104 per cent, Larsen had previously been convicted for drink driving five times in Western Australia, four times in Queensland and once in the Northern Territory previously.

He was banned from holding a licence until 2023 during his March 2019 court hearing.

Jade Thomas Clausen

(2021)

After doing donuts down a Gold Coast street and crashing in to a traffic light pole, Clausen recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.22 per cent, over four time the legal limit in September last year.

The labourer faced Southport Magistrates Court earlier this year and pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and driving under the influence of liquor.

The tearful 43-year-old was sentenced to 12 months’ jail, which was wholly suspended, and disqualified him from driving for 2½ years, along with being ordered to pay more than $11,000 restitution for repairs to fix the pole.

Skye Melissa Fuller

(2020)

The Gold Coast nightclub manager was caught speeding at 150km/h down the Pacific Motorway.

A court in September 2020 heard Ms Fuller was high on the drug GHB while bumping into guardrails and swerving erratically across lanes of traffic.

The 26-year-old pleaded guilty to six offences including dangerous operation of a vehicle while adversely affected, leading to her losing her licence for nine months and being sentenced to 15 months’ probation over the incident in May 2019.

Matthew Jones

(2018)

Mr Jones was caught by police driving on the Pacific Motorway in Helensvale with a blood alcohol reading more than five times the legal limit.

He pleaded guilty to driving under the influence following the incident in May 2018, where he blew a blood alcohol reading of 0.279.

Mr Jones was placed on probation for a period of 18 months and disqualified from driving for 13 months in a court hearing in October 2018.

Riley Jae Thompson

(2019)

Mr Thompson was caught driving with the drug ice (methamphetamines) in his system.

He pleaded guilty to drug driving in April 2019 and to possessing drug utensils and failing to give a statutory declaration at a court hearing in September 2019.

At the time the Nerang man was 18 and was fined $6527.50 and his licence was disqualified for two years and one month for the drug driving offence.

Robert Thomas Summerville

(2019)

Mr Summerville pleaded guilty to drug driving and multiple other offences in February 2020 after an incident in June 2019 left a teenager suffering permanent brain damage.

The 16-year-old he hit had to be revived on the side of the road on June 6, 2019 after Mr Summerville was high on ice. Mr Summerville hit the teen who was trying to cross Bermuda St in Burleigh Waters.

The teen spent 14 days in an induced coma, 10 weeks in hospital and has undergone hours and hours of rehab to right a broken femur and brain injury.

Mr Summerville was given a $500 fine and a one-month suspension after pleading guilty to drug driving, driving an unregistered vehicle and failing to comply with duties of a driver involved in a crash, leaving the teenager’s family furious.

Andrew Ian Lane

(2020)

The Gold Coast dad had spent about five hours at a Pimpama pub in the lead up to a frightening incident in August 2020 that left Lane in trouble.

The tradie pleaded guilty in Southport Magistrates Court in September last year to public nuisance, dangerous operation of a vehicle, driving under the influence and failing to provide a specimen as required following the incident where he drove at four people at a shopping centre car park.

A court heard Lane drove at the bystanders, including a pregnant woman, terrifying those involved.

Bryce Stewart Temple

(2020)

Temple was operating a 4m tinnie in May 2017 when a collision with an 11m cruiser caused the death of his girlfriend Jess Murray and he was charged for driving an “unsafe” tinnie with drugs in his system.

He pleaded guilty in June 2020 to driving while drug present in blood or saliva, and general safety obligation of ship owners and masters about condition of ships.

Temple told a court he has thought about the incident daily for three years before being jailed for three months, wholly suspended for a year, and fined $500 for having an “unsafe” vessel without a light on its bow, and driving with drugs in his system.