Yeppoon drug addict Brett Wiltshire busted with meth, MDMA in Rockhampton

A methamphetamines user was so deeply addicted that police nabbed him with a large quantity of drugs in the most unusual of circumstances.

Yeppoon drug addict Brett Wiltshire busted with meth, MDMA in Rockhampton

A methamphetamines user was so deeply addicted that police nabbed him with a large quantity of drugs in the most unusual of circumstances.

Brett Wiltshire, 40, was behind the wheel of a vehicle stopped at the intersection of Denham and Denison streets in Rockhampton when he stayed just a little too long, the Supreme Court heard on August 19, 2024.

It was 11.30pm on May 27, 2023, when the officers pulled up beside Wiltshire’s vehicle to find him slumped over the steering wheel fast asleep, Justice Graeme Crow said.

“You were so, so out of it you fell asleep at the wheel in the middle of Rockhampton,” he said.

“You claimed you had smoked the methamphetamines for your back pain.”

After being woken up, police searched Wiltshire’s vehicle and located 8.433 grams of pure meth in 11.214g of substance, along with 0.210g of MDMA, 8g of marijuana, two glass pipes and a set of electric scales.

Defence barrister Maree Willey said her client had worked all of his life since leaving school, until 2023 when a workplace injury became too much for him to continue working.

The court heard Wiltshire, who grew up in Yeppoon, had worked at JRT Group for 12 years when he had the accident and he had continued working after the accident in less strenuous roles, moving on to lighter employment at a council for four years before that work aggravated his injury too much.

He then started a machinery business, but after 12 months found he couldn’t continue it as he was operating the machines which aggravated his injury.

The court heard he sold the business and lived off the proceeds for about a year and now receives a disability pension.

Ms Willey said her client developed a drug habit in 2019.

The court heard Wiltshire’s 13 year long relationship, which resulted in three children, broke down and his father died of cancer, all around the same period.

Wiltshire pleaded guilty to one count of possessing more than two grams of a dangerous drug, two counts of possessing a drug, one of possessing a pipe and one of possessing items suspected used in a drug crime.

The court did not hear of any charges or convictions for drug driving following the May 2023 incident.

Wiltshire had one entry on his criminal record for possessing drugs in 2003 and has no more drug offences since being charged for this significant drug possession.

He was sentenced to 2.5 years prison with immediate parole release.

Originally published as Yeppoon drug addict Brett Wiltshire busted with meth, MDMA in Rockhampton