Tweed meth driver gets 15 months jail
A SERIAL offender, arrested after he was seen driving erratically in a stolen vehicle at Tweed Heads last week, has been slapped with a 15-month jail sentence.
The sentence was handed down in the Tweed Heads Local Court today following the man's arrest at about 3.45pm last Thursday.
Tweed-Byron Local Area Command police highway patrol officers were conducting patrols of Minjungbal Dr at Tweed Heads South when they intercepted a man driving away from a service station erratically in a stolen vehicle, with stolen registration plates, after committing an offence.
Police arrested the man and conducted a search of his vehicle which revealed a number of stolen registration plates and a small amount of cannabis.
The offender submitted to roadside breath and drug tests which provided a positive presumptive result for methamphetamines (ice).
Police records also showed the offender had an outstanding arrest warrant issued by Tweed Heads Local Court for fraud-related offences.
He was conveyed to Tweed Heads police station where he was charged with 15 offences and refused bail.
Today he was convicted and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment.
