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Kelvin Wisely appeared in the Dunedin District Court on drug-related charges in 2018. He has now had his $225,000 home seized by police.
OPINION: In 2015, Kelvin Bruce Wisely was 46 years old. He had no dependants and was earning a modest living driving trucks for an Otago firm. He’d had a spotted career. Five drink driving convictions for a start. He’d also earned a conviction for cultivation in 1996 and another in 2006. Yet in early 2016 he managed to cobble together some cash and brought a quiet rural property for $330,000.
According to Wisely, he raised the capital from “years of hard work truck driving” aided with an inheritance from his father and from selling a “pretty crummy house in town”. He also had a large mortgage.