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A disqualified driver has been tasered by police following a pursuit at Grafton early this morning.
About 1am Monday, police officers were patrolling the South Grafton area when they saw a Holden Calais on the Big River Way allegedly driving in a dangerous manner.
Police attempted to stop the driver. However, it failed to stop and police started a pursuit.
The pursuit continued for more than 40km along several rural roads before the vehicle left the road and ended in a drain off the Big River Way at Clarenza.
Officers approached the driver – a 37-year-old man – where he allegedly refused to comply with directions.
The trial for a man accused of a serious drug offence has been tossed out of court after judge ruled a key piece of evidence was illegally obtained by police
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Subscriber only A Grafton man s drug dealing was brought to the attention of police after staff at a Grafton hotel found a bag of drugs that CCTV footage revealed had fallen out of his pocket, a court has been told. Peter Colin Rowleson appeared in Grafton District Court last week for a sentence hearing after pleading guilty to supplying a prohibited drug between an indictable and commercial quantity. The court was told that officers from Coffs/Clarence Police District were called to the Village Green Hotel on March 5 last year when at about 1.07pm employees of the hotel found a small clear plastic bag containing a white crystal substance on a cushion of an outdoor bench at the pub.