City Safe cameras caught man urinating in public, led to arrest

A City Safe camera caught a motorist answering nature’s call in the heart of Toowoomba’s CBD. Police were alerted to his nocturnal activities and promptly booked the man for drunk driving. 

Joel Andrew Taylor was fined $1300 for refusing a breath test.

JOEL Andrew Taylor had nothing to say in his defence after he pleaded guilty to drink driving.

Police prosecutor Jacquelyn Miller told the Toowoomba Magistrates Court that Taylor came to the attention of authorities when a City Safe camera spied him urinating in a CBD carpark about 2.40am on February 28.

“He was viewed on CCTV, and he entered the door of a vehicle on Annand St,” she said.

Police intercepted Taylor and told him he was required to provide a breath specimen.

The court heard Taylor declined a roadside breath test and as a result was arrested and lodged at the Toowoomba Watchhouse, where police issued a second test.

“The reading was taken as 0.175 per cent,” Sgt Millar said.

When asked if he had anything to say in his defence, Taylor declined, other than to enter a plea of guilty to driving under the influence and failing to provide a specimen as required for a breath test.

Magistrate Howard Osborne fined Taylor $1300 for the two offences, disqualified him from holding a driver’s licence for nine months and recorded both convictions.