Northside man caught with drugs and cash told he should be thankful to police
A young man has been caught with a range of illicit and prescription drugs as well as almost $5000 in cash.
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A northside man caught with hundreds of illegal pills and thousands in cash has been warned he could have faced jail time if police had level more serious charges.
Logan Corey Bone pleaded guilty at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court to five charges including possessing dangerous drugs and illegally possessing restricted drugs.
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The court heard police pulled over a car driving on Morayfield Rd in Burpengary that Bone, 20, was a passenger in.
Bone told police he had nothing illegal on him but when police searched the car they found a backpack between Bone’s feet containing a range of illegal and prescription drugs.
The bag had 9.3 grams of cocaine, 397 tablets of Valium and 29 tablets of benzodiazepine.
In another bag in the car police found a small quantity of cannabis.
In March, Bone was at Maroochydore’s Sunshine Plaza when police approached him after security guards alerted them to “suspicious behaviour”.
Police searched Bone’s bag and found 27 xanax tablets and $4800 in cash.
Bone told police the cash came from some “cash in hand” work he had been doing and it was returned.
Bone’s lawyer Rory Cunningham told the court his client was lucky he had not been charged with more serious offences that could have been taken to the Supreme Court.
“I’m certain a sinister inference could be made about what was going on here,” he said.
“This could have gone to the Supreme Court.”
Mr Cunningham said Bone was currently unemployed but had recently been helping care for his young niece. A change that had prompted him to try and stop using drugs.
Bone was ordered to serve probation for 12 months.