22-year-old woman fined for cocaine possession
Updated: Jun 07, 2011 08:46 AM
A 22-year-old Warwick woman who took cocaine into a Hamilton bar was fined $1,000.Danielle Valerie Eatherley, of Ord Valley Lane, admitted carrying 0.4 grams of cocaine into The Beach Bar on January 30.Magistrates’ Court heard that at 2.50am, police on foot patrol responded to a disturbance at the Front Street bar.Arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station, Eatherley told police: “I’m going to be honest with you, I have drugs on me.”She handed over a brown paper twist, containing three twists with a total of 0.4 grams of cocaine.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner gave her a month to pay the fine.