{"id":396668,"date":"2026-04-25T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396668\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:09:08","slug":"teen-jonty-parkes-caught-drink-driving-in-queenstown-after-moving-car-10m-to-avoid-car-parking-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396668\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Jonty Parkes caught drink-driving in Queenstown after moving car 10m to avoid car-parking fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

After his birthday trip in April, Parkes, of Te Awamutu, spent more than $3000 on flights and accommodation to return to Queenstown<\/a> to appear in the district court and face the charge. <\/p>\n

\"JontyJonty Parkes was celebrating his birthday in Queenstown when he was caught drink driving. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

This week, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Community Magistrate Elder Robati.<\/p>\n

At the hearing, Robati referred to the summary of facts, which stated Parkes was stopped by police just before 1.30am on April 10.<\/p>\n

While the breath test revealed he was more than three times the adult legal limit, because Parkes was under 20, he was subject to a zero alcohol limit.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou stated it was your birthday and you did not think you\u2019d blow this high,\u201d Robati said.<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Megan Waller told the court that Parkes had been visiting his girlfriend in Queenstown.<\/p>\n

While celebrating his birthday, he had been trying to avoid a fine when he moved his Mazda.<\/p>\n

Waller said Parkes has had to fork out thousands to return to the area to appear in court. <\/p>\n

He was then fined $700 and disqualified from driving for 28 days. <\/p>\n

He would then need to apply for an interlock device for 12 months, and a zero alcohol licence for three years would follow. <\/p>\n

Brianna McIlraith is a Queenstown-based reporter for Open Justice covering courts in the lower South Island. She has been a journalist since 2018 and has had a strong interest in business and financial journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After his birthday trip in April, Parkes, of Te Awamutu, spent more than $3000 on flights and accommodation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45054,74,17094,3944,142535,9525,39687,6204,78,204907,2686,111,43,139,69,147400,20930,5163,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-396668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-10m","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-avoid","11":"tag-car","12":"tag-carparking","13":"tag-caught","14":"tag-drinkdriving","15":"tag-fine","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-jonty","18":"tag-moving","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-parkes","24":"tag-queenstown","25":"tag-teen","26":"tag-to"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}