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A Gympie region man will spend the next six weeks in jail after he was caught with marijuana only four months after being convicted of growing the illegal drug.
James Justin John Wickmann was caught with 31g of the plant when police executed a search warrant at his home at The Palms on March 10.
Gympie Magistrates Court heard Wickmann told officers he had the drug and a bong in his house but their search also turned up clip-seal bags containing marijuana in a white plastic container, and another small container with chopped marijuana.
Wickmann had been in Gympie District Court only four months earlier to plead guilty to multiple charges, including producing the dangerous drug.
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What was a $60 petrol bill has instead cost a Monkland mother more than five times that amount after she failed to pay for the fuel before driving off.
Christina Mary Platten had pulled into a Goomboorian service station on February 12 to refuel when she became embroiled in an argument with her daughter, Gympie Magistrates Court heard.
The 45-year-old then got back in her car and drove away instead of paying.
Magistrate Graham Hillan accepted Platten’s guilty plea to a charge of unauthorised dealing with shop goods, but chided her for the “silly” mistake of not going back to the station and paying for the petrol once she realised what she had done.
Two Sunshine Coast men will spend the next several months in jail after being caught growing almost 400 marijuana plants on a Mary Valley property. Eumundi s Steven John Douglas Best and Cooroy s Stephen John Halpin were sentenced in Brisbane District Court on Wednesday. The pair had last week faced a Gympie court where they pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to a sophisticated hydroponic set-up they established at Carters Ridge. Gympie District Court was told police seized 49.5kg of marijuana plants with a wholesale value of more than $360,000 at the property. Almost half of the plants were more than 1m high.
Two Sunshine Coast men will spend the next several months in jail after being caught growing almost 400 marijuana plants on a Mary Valley property. Eumundi s Steven John Douglas Best and Cooroy s Stephen John Halpin were sentenced in Brisbane District Court on Wednesday. The pair had last week faced a Gympie court where they pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to a sophisticated hydroponic set-up they established at Carters Ridge. Gympie District Court was told police seized 49.5kg of marijuana plants with a wholesale value of more than $360,000 at the property. Almost half of the plants were more than 1m high.
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A former boxer who once had a âpromising careerâ has avoided a stint behind bars for selling methamphetamines to an undercover police officer.
Gympie District Court heard Mark David Hanson sold five clip-seal bags of the drug to the officer in a deal at his Gympie house on July 17, 2019.
The bags were kept in a container Hanson had tucked away inside an old sock.
Hansonâs defence barrister said his 52-year-old client had a âpromising careerâ as a professional boxer at the turn of the century but it came to an abrupt end when he was stabbed in the kidney.