Teen trashes cell after being arrested for trying to evade booze bus while three times the limit
A TEENAGER who scattered her breakfast across the floor of her cell after being arrested for trying to drive around a booze bus while three times over the limit has copped $800 in fines
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A TEENAGER who scattered her breakfast across the floor of her cell after being arrested for trying to drive around a booze bus while three times over the limit has copped $800 in fines.
Elisabeth Jensen, 19, pleaded guilty in the Darwin Local Court to a high range drink driving and disorderly behaviour in a police station after being busted on Mitchell Street last month.
The court heard Jensen was driving to the Opium nightclub to pick up a friend at about 4.35am on December 6 when she encountered a police car parked diagonally across the road with its lights flashing.
She tried to drive around the roadblock but was spotted immediately and arrested and taken to the Palmerston watch-house, where she recorded a blood-alcohol reading of 0.169.
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Jensen was given a breakfast pack in the morning and prosecutor Luke McLaughlin said at about 9.30am she began to fling its contents around the inside of her cell.
“The defendant was sitting at the bench seat in cell F02 where she’s picked up her breakfast pack and thrown it with force across the floor,” he said.
Mr McLaughlin said Jensen then opened a fruit pack and a small carton of milk which she also emptied onto the floor.
Representing herself, Jensen said she had nothing to add to a bundle of character references she tendered to the court.
In handing her a total of $800 in fines and disqualifying her from driving for 12 months, judge Michael Carey said the incident was “not an auspicious start for a young lady of 19”.
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“Driving past a police vehicle with its lights flashing is a fair indication of how intoxicated you were,” he said.
“What you shouldn’t have done was driven into town in the first place.”
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