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During a subsequent search of the vehicle, police located a 60-year-old woman in the boot of the car.

Both women were issued with $1000 fines, and the older woman was also charged with a breach of bail and issued an infringement notice for travelling in the boot of a car.

She is next due to appear at Deniliquin Local Court on Tuesday November 3.

On Friday morning, police spoke with a 53-year-old woman at the checkpoint on Murray Valley Way, Euston, who claimed that she had no ID or permit to be in NSW because her purse had been stolen.

She verbally provided details to be checked, which revealed that there was no driver’s licence recorded for that identity, and entry into NSW had been refused four days prior - and after noticing a handbag in the back of the car, police confirmed her real name, and also located heroin in the vehicle.

She was given two separate $1000 fines and issued court notices from both drug possession and driving with a suspended licence.

A South Australian man was fined $1000 at the same checkpoint that evening, for trying to enter NSW without a permit.

Police issued the man with a $1000 PIN and refused entry into NSW. The other 11 people who were issued fines were linked to an unauthorised transgender rights rally in central Sydney on Saturday, with one woman charged.

She is due to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday November 3.