At around 1pm on Sunday, January 6, police attached to Central North Highway Patrol were conducting mobile testing on Pangee Street in Nyngan.

Officers said they observed a black motorcycle enter a service station.

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“Police approached the rider and asked him to produce a drivers licence to which he could not,” officers said.

“Checks showed that the rider holds a current rider learners licence.

“The rider was not displaying his ‘L’ plates.”

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The rider was breath tested with a negative result and was then drug tested which returned a positive reading to methylamphetamine.

“The rider was arrested and conveyed to Nyngan Police Station for a secondary test,” officers said.

“Inspection of the motorcycle showed numerous defects.”

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The rider was issued a red label defect for the motorcycle, an Infringement notice for not producing a licence and not display L plate was issued.

Police are awaiting the lab results of the oral fluid test.