<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An NRL team public relations worker who guided her club through a player's drug-driving crisis has herself admitted crashing into parked cars while more than three times the alcohol limit.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Broncos media officer Melissa Telhia Mallet, 39, faced Brisbane Magistrates Court today on one count of high-range drink driving.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mallet is the third person linked to the Broncos to be charged with drink or drug driving in the past 10 months.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bendigo-bank-shuts-down-10-branches-in-victoria-queensland-tasmania/7aee57c8-3eec-40ce-8b23-826d49986ba4" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Bendigo Bank to shut 10 branches across three states</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Broncos player Ezra Mam was driving his ute when it collided with an Uber at Bardon, in Brisbane's west, on October 18, injuring a woman and child.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mam pleaded guilty to drug driving and driving without a licence, receiving an $850 fine and a licence suspension for six months.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Broncos former premiership player Steve Renouf last week apologised after allegedly being caught by police driving in Brisbane with a 0.197 blood alcohol concentration.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/broncos-pr-boss-melissa-telhia-mallet-admits-to-drink-driving/42739098-fa4d-4513-9405-16e18d118b37" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Magistrate Joseph Pinder today asked Mallet how she would plead to the charge.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Guilty, Your Honour," Mallet said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police prosecutor Paul McPhee told Pinder that officers responded to a traffic crash at 9.45pm on June 2 in the inner Brisbane suburb of Paddington.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Police when they arrived observed members of the public on the street and numerous vehicles damaged," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It appeared a car had run into numerous parked cars."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sergeant McPhee said police spoke to Mallet, who said she had been driving and her tests returned with a 0.156 blood-alcohol concentration.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"(Mallet) appeared confused and had slurred speech. She was asked to provide a recollection of the incident but said she was unable to," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mallet told police she had consumed four or five glasses of wine prior to the incident.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-mena-creek-paraglider-dies-after-falling-20-metres-from-parachute/afddef2a-25c6-4964-a24a-c0a75acf820c" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Paraglider dies after falling 20 metres from parachute</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Defence solicitor Michael Kelly said Mallet had shown remorse by pleading guilty as soon as possible and had immediately booked herself into rehabilitation.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said Mallet was "deeply embarrassed" by media attention on her case.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The car that she hit bumped into another car. She has spoken to the owners of both those vehicles and apologised," Mr Kelly said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She is personally liable for the cost."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pinder said Mallet's offence was very concerning as she was more than three times the legal limit and it was only good luck that nobody was injured.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You displayed signs of being severely intoxicated," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Undoubtedly the accident that occurred, with you crashing into two parked cars, was a consequence of your inability to control your motor vehicle because you were drunk."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pinder said Mallet's driving history was "not particularly flattering" but she had no prior drink-driving charges.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The conduct is uncharacteristic. Your employer speaks highly of you ... you present as a person who is very unlikely to reoffend," Pinder said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mallet was fined $1000 and disqualified from holding a licence for nine months with no conviction recorded.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She declined to comment as she left court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Renouf is due to face Brisbane Magistrates Court on July 16.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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