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A paraplegic Whitsunday man has avoided jail for serious drug charges after a judge told him “prison authorities would have great difficulty looking after you”.
Andrew Karl Brauner, 52, faced Mackay District Court on Friday charged with a string of drug offences after Australian Border Force officers raided his home in 2018.
The court heard the officers had intercepted a package, containing 0.858 grams of pure heroin, on its way to Brauner’s Woodwark home in February 2018.
When border force officers searched Brauner’s home on July 15 2018, he admitted to buying the heroin on the dark web.
Officers also found dried marijuana, an uncapped syringe and a hydroponics set-up during the search.
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