A man who was caught drug driving for the third time has been fined $500.
Lucas Standfield, 34, of Shepparton, pleaded guilty in Shepparton Magistrates’ Court to drug driving.
Prosecutor Senior Constable Luke Lund told the court Standfield tested positive for methamphetamines when he was drug tested by police in Melville St, Numurkah, on December 13 last year.
When Magistrate Marita Altman told Standfield this was the third time he had been caught drug driving and asked what it would take to stop him from doing so, he replied he “was around people using it and it turned up in my blood”.
Ms Altman was quick to point out that the court did not usually accept that reasoning.
Standfield then told the court he had stopped “hanging around” with those people since then.
Standfield was fined $500 and his driver’s licence was cancelled for 12 months from March 2 when police took his licence off him over the offence.