March 17, 2014
A 16-year-old Booie youth has been charged with failing to stop and evading police after he allegedly sped away from Kingaroy police at 8:00pm on Wednesday.
Police will allege the youth, who was driving a Falcon ute, failed to stop when they attempted to pull him over in Kingaroy Street and “accelerated away at speed”.
“Police did not pursue,” Officer-in-Charge of Kingaroy Police, Senior Sergeant Duane Frank said.
Police located the driver the next day at his residence in the Booie area.
They will allege he sped off because he didn’t have a driving licence.
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“A fatality waiting to happen” … that’s how police have described a South Burnett driver pulled over by police on the D’Aguilar Highway between Kingaroy and Nanango on 8:30pm on Thursday.
Snr Sgt Duane Frank said police were conducting normal patrols when they pulled over the 37-year-old man.
Checks discovered he was disqualified from driving until April this year, and a breath test allegedly revealed he was nearly five times over the legal limit, 0.232 BAC.
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Police impounded a woman driver’s number plates for seven days after pulling her over in Youngman Street, Kingaroy, after midnight on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old woman allegedly did not have a driver’s licence, and had been stopped a week earlier by police for the same offence.
She has been charged with unlicensed driving.
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Kingaroy police have charged a man and woman after executing a search warrant at a house in Farr Court in Kingaroy on Friday.
The duo were charged with possessing a dangerous drug and possessing a drug utensil.
As well, the man was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and ammunition.
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On Friday, Kingaroy police located a youth in the Kingaroy CBD who was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant as a result of a Children’s Court hearing in February.
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Police investigations have dismissed allegations of a possible child abduction shared on Facebook.
Reports of suspicious behaviour in River Road in Kingaroy were shared on a page on Saturday afternoon.
Snr Sgt Duane Frank said a concerned father had been wishing to know the whereabouts of his child.
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On Wednesday morning, Kingaroy police located a 35-year-old woman in a Moonya Street address who was wanted on a “return to prison” warrant. She was arrested and returned to the Brisbane Women’s Prison.
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Police didn’t have to go far to detect a drink driver at 2:00am on Thursday.
They stopped a vehicle in Alford Street outside the Kingaroy Police Station and breath-tested the 29-year-old female driver.
Police will allege the Kingaroy woman registered 0.095 BAC.
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Calls to police on Friday afternoon about a driver on the Memerambi-Gordonbrook Road have led to a 47-year-old man being charged with drink-driving. The man allegedly had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.133.
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Police patrolling in Appin Street, Nanango, at 1:00am on Monday pulled over a 22-year-old man. They will allege he had no licence and blew 0.148 BAC.
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Snr Sgt Duane Frank said the number of drink-driving offences detected recently in the local area was concerning.
So far in March, more than 700 drivers have been breath-tested in the Kingaroy area; seven people have been charged with drink-driving and nine people have been charged with drug-driving.
There have also been three crashes where people suffered some form of injury.
Across the State, there had been 11 fatalities in just the first 17 days of March – and 42 for the year so far.
