Drug drivers caught out in roadside police sting
POLICE have charged seven drug drivers in a three-hour operation targeting criminals bound for the Sunshine Coast.
Officers reduced north-bound traffic to one lane on Steve Irwin Way at Glenview on Thursday night to do random vehicle and driver checks.
Nambour Road Policing Unit officer-in-charge Senior Sergeant Shane Panoho said the operation was in response to criminals coming from southern areas.
"The focus was to look at movement of the offenders coming into the Sunshine Coast," Snr Sgt Panoho said.
Officers from the Coast's tactical crime and criminal investigation branches were also there.
One man was also charged with drink driving after allegedly giving a reading of 0.067.
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Snr Sgt Panoho was disappointed by the number of drug drivers who gave positive readings for marijuana and amphetamine use.
He said in the past week, 27 drug driving charges had been laid on the Coast from 89 drivers tested.
They included an 18-year-old Burnside man stopped in Price St, Nambour, about 4pm Thursday.
The teenager allegedly had 14 MDMA capsules in his possession.
He was charged with drug driving, drug possession and drug supply.
"It's disappointing," Snr Sgt Panoho said.
"For the amount of testing and the amount of information we are putting out there."
