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THE decision to drive on Bathurst roads with drugs in his system has cost a man $800.
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Daryl Howard Somerville, 38, of Torch Street, Bathurst, entered a written plea of guilty to Bathurst Local Court on October 26 for one count of driving with an illicit drug present in his blood.
Court documents reveal a green Toyota Lexcen sedan - driven by Somerville - was stopped by police about 5.20pm on August 1 this year on William Street in Bathurst.
Somerville was subject to an oral drug fluid test which returned a positive result for cannabis.
The court heard he was arrested and taken to Bathurst Police Station where he provided a secondary sample for drug analysis, which came back negative.
The remainder of the sample was sent for forensic analysis, which later returned a positive detection of cannabis.
"I was at a party on the weekend ... other people were smoking," Somerville said to police about taking drugs.
Magistrate Elizabeth Ellis convicted Somerville - who was absent in court - and disqualified him from driving for three months in addition to the fine.
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