A BONNER man has been charged with seven offences after being caught in a Mitsubishi Lancer with stolen number plates – breaching existing bail conditions.
About 4pm yesterday (October 25) officers from Operation Toric found the parked car in Bruce and saw the 44-year-old Bonner man return to the vehicle.
Police say the man attempted to leave the scene, however stop sticks were successfully used and the man was arrested.
The man, who was on bail at the time of his arrest, refused to undertake a roadside screening test and was taken to the ACT Watch House.
He was charged with driving while disqualified, refusing to undergo a roadside screening test, refusing to provide an oral fluid sample, number plates not properly issued, unlawful possession of stolen property, using an unregistered vehicle and using an uninsured vehicle.
He was also charged with breaching a drug and alcohol treatment order, breaching a good behaviour order and breaching existing bail conditions.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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