A MOTHER-OF-THREE caught with ice and committing driving offences has been placed on a community corrections order.
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Jaymee Lee Chatfield, 24, previously of Price Place, Warrnambool, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to a range of charges.
The offending also breached a CCO imposed for what magistrate Cynthia Toose described as "quite remarkable offending" which was also related to ice use.
Ms Toose said that CCO never got off the ground.
Defence counsel Damien Pitts said his client had spent 45 days in custody last year and when released was to start the CCO on November 17 but Chatfield had extreme housing difficulties.
Those problems were exacerbated while Chatfield was staying at a motel when her partner reversed into the motel, causing damage, and they were no longer welcome.
Chatfield was couch surfing when arrested after she had fallen back into substance abuse.
Mr Pitts said Chafield had now served 42 days in custody on the current charges, she recognised she had a problem with meth amphetamine but she had the incentive of re-connecting with her children..
The magistrate said that in Chatfield's own words she had "gone off the grid".
Ms Toose said she was prepared to give Chatfield an opportunity.
"But, she has to do her bit," she said, before placing her on a CCO with the support of the Court Integrated Services Program.
Chatfield also has outstanding criminal charges which are listed for a contest mention hearing on May 21.
Police said that at 4.45pm on March 9 Chatfield was driving a silver Mitsubishi which had stolen number plates attached.
The car's registration expired on February 10, 2016, and Chatfield's licence had run out about a month before she was intercepted in Wooles Avenue.
She also had a small bag of ice in her jeans pocket and said she didn't realise her licence had expired although she was given a fine for unlicensed driving three weeks before being pulled over a second time.