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A man has avoided spending time behind bars after he offered to supply someone with a pump action shot gun.
Christopher David Howard, 42, pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Wednesday to a number of offences including unlawful supply of a category C/E weapon and driving with a drug present in his saliva.
The court heard Howard offered to supply someone with a pump action shot gun in February 2019.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Grant Klaassen told the court Howard had been dealt with in court previously for weapon offences.
Howard’s lawyer Rian Dwyer told the court his client only offered to supply the weapon and that there was no actual supply involved.
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Subscriber only A man has pleaded a magistrate to reconsider his offer after he was sentenced to jail time for using a wooden stake to cause fear near a Walkervale home on Friday night. Caine Nicholas Wilshire pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday to one count of going armed so as to cause fear and wilful damage. He appeared in the courtroom via videolink from the Bundaberg Watch House, where he spent the weekend in custody after the incident. The court heard police were called to Maynard St on Friday night after they received reports of an armed person threatening people living in a home in the area.
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Subscriber only A low speed run from police has landed a man in his 60s with a substantial fine and his licence disqualified for two years. Cary Neil Drake pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday to one count of evasion and another charge of wilful damage. On July 9 last year police were doing patrols in Avoca looking for a wanted person who had been linked to the area. During their patrols officers noticed a parked vehicle with two people inside. Drake was in the driver s seat while the person in the passenger seat was believed to be the wanted person.
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Subscriber only A man has been refused bail after he allegedly threatened to burn down his partner s home in an act of alleged domestic violence. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday by videolink from the Bundaberg Watch House. He is facing a number of offences include two counts of aggravated domestic violence order breaches. The man made an application for bail which was opposed by the prosecution. The court heard the man was also charged with public nuisance after he allegedly started yelling and threatening witnesses. Police prosecutor Senior Constable Tina Bland told the court witnesses told police the man appeared heavily intoxicated at the time.
It started as a motorbike ride with a mate but for one Bundaberg rider it would end with his friend mortally wounded and police laying a string of charges against him.
When police attended the scene of the crash that killed Beau Roberts they discovered his mate and riding partner Wylie Ethan Moon had committed offences which would land him in court.
Moon pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Thursday to driving while disqualified by a court order, driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle and driving with paper number plates.
The court heard Moon was riding a motorbike with Beau Roberts at Alloway on November 2, before Roberts suffered fatal injuries in a crash with another vehicle.