STARLET CAUGHT WITH ECSTASY

A young model and television starlet was caught with two ecstasy
tablets and driving her BMW without P-plates, a court heard yesterday.
Willowy blonde Sarah Carter, 21, who has appeared in Neighbors and
Stingers, told police she only had the party drug for personal use at
nightclubs.

Sen-Constable Anthony Turner told Melbourne Magistrates' Court Ms
Carter was driving her BMW in St Kilda Rd last December when she was
pulled over for a routine check.

Although still a probationary driver, her P-plates were in the
glove-box.

The court heard police had executed a search warrant at the Moorabbin
house she shares with her husband two days earlier and found less than
two crumbled ecstasy tablets in an ornamental chest in a wardrobe.

She told police she used the drug when she went out to nightclubs and
that they were only for personal use.

Ms Carter pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of ecstasy and
failing to wear P-plates.

Defence counsel David Munz told the court Ms Carter had a promising
career as an actor and model and had already appeared in many
television productions.

"You might even recognise her," he told magistrate Peter
Lauritsen.

Mr Munz said she had been working in the entertainment industry since
she was 14 and worked as a teenage model to fund her own private schooling.

Mr Lauritsen told Ms Carter she had been silly and deserved another
chance.

He placed her on a 12-month good behavior bond without conviction and
ordered her to pay $200 into the court fund.