Claims Woolgoolga rugby player Sione Fangupo ‘went for a walk’ during alleged drug bust
Supreme Court documents claim a talented rugby player on drug charges had a sudden urge to abscond to a gym during a police raid, resulting in a four day vanishing act before his arrest.
Supreme Court documents reveal a talented rugby player on drug charges had a sudden urge to abscond to a gym during a police raid, resulting in a four day vanishing act before his arrest.
Semi-professional rugby league player Sione Fangupo, 28, allegedly told police he was “going to the gym” during a raid at his Woolgoolga home on June 27.
According to the court documents released after a successful bail appeal, revealing police later attended Woolgoolga’s Nexus Gym to arrest him, but were informed he hadn’t attended.
Police allege when they were able to arrest him, a total of four days later, Fangupo told them that he “went for a walk instead”.
Details of the raid, as shown in the court documents, show police allege they discovered more than 1500 MDMA pills — three times the commercial quantity, as well as cocaine and steroids.
Police allege they found “Goliath” branded MDMA bags found throughout the house both in Fangupo’s room and in a second bedroom with “male effects”.
The Supreme Court court papers also detail Fangupo’s previous offending, including domestic violence and assault charges.
He was granted Supreme Court bail on September 12 while his co-accused and brother Solomone Fangupo remains in custody.
Sione Fangupo is charged with three counts of possessing a prohibited drug and one count of supplying a prohibited drug more than a commercial quantity.
He has not been charged with evading arrest.
Solomone Fangupo is charged with large scale drug supply, failing to comply with digital evidence access order direction, two counts of possessing or using a prohibited weapon without a permit, dealing with property the proceeds of crime, possessing a prohibited drug and supplying a prohibited drug less than commercial quantity.
Neither man has entered a plea and both return to Coffs Harbour Local Court on October 14.
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