Found with drugs in his pocket, he claimed the jeans weren’t his

The 39-year-old was caught with his pants down which he told police were not actually his.

The man said he didn’t know what the substance found in his pocket was because the jeans he was wearing were not his.

A TOOWOOMBA man found with drugs in his trouser pocket protested to police that the pants he was wearing were not his.

Jamie Allan Myers had been sitting in a broken down car with hazard lights on at the side of Esk-Hampton Road about 2am on June 5, when police approached, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

A patdown search had found a small bag of white crystalline substance, suspected to be meth, in his jeans pocket, police prosecutor Natalie Bugden told the court.

Myers told police he was wearing someone else’s jeans and didn’t know what the substance was.

Found in the tray of the utility was a small amount of cannabis and a metal pipe for smoking it, Sergeant Bugden said.

The 39-year-old told police he had been with another man in the utility which had been towed from Maryborough.

However, after an argument with those in the lead vehicle, he had been left with the ute at the side of the road and had been there for six hours, Sgt Bugden said.

Myers pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs arising from that incident and to possessing 3.1g of white crystalline substance suspected to have been methylamphetamine, a pipe for smoking the drug and cotton buds suspected as being used in drug use found on him when approached by police in Withcott on the evening of April 3, last year.

His solicitor Brad Skuse, of Skuse Graham Lawyers, told the court his client had been sentenced to six months jail with immediate parole in April and had the April 2020 offences been dealt with then his client would only have received a slightly longer sentence.

His client maintained he had borrowed the pants he was wearing when he was in the utility being towed, he said.

When left on the side of the road, he had called a friend to come and pick him up but, that friend had been pulled over by police in Highfields en route, Mr Skuse said.

However, his client accepted responsibility for having the items and so pleaded guilty, he said.

For the April 2020 matters, Magistrate Graham Lee sentenced Myers to six months in jail but ordered he be released on parole immediately and fined him $1200 for the possession of dangerous drugs when he had been in the ute.