Jed Errol Stubbs pleads guilty at Coffs Harbour court to drug supply after magic mushrooms, cannabis found
Police on a special operation to weed out illegal cannabis in Coffs copped more than they bargained for when they were shown a sizeable stash of magic mushrooms.
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Cannabis plants growing in the backyard of a Halfway Creek property, one two metres tall, caught the attention of police cruising along Luthers Road.
The Coffs Harbour officers were working on a special Cannabis Eradication Operation on March 16.
They spoke with Jed Errol Stubbs, the only man living at the property.
Stubbs made “several admissions” to growing cannabis and took officers to see his plants, police state in court documents.
They found the large plant and 10 smaller plants by a water tank.
Stubbs, 29, told police he also had a quantity of leaf inside, found to weigh 150 grams.
He also admitted to possessing psilocybin (magic mushrooms).
The drug weighed in at 8.1g – which Magistrate Roger Prowse said amounted to 32 times the indictable quantity for the prohibited substance.
Police facts estimated the street value of the cannabis was $11,500.
Stubbs faced Coffs Harbour Local Court on Wednesday.
He entered guilty pleas to cultivating a prohibited plant greater than small and less than commercial quantity, supplying a prohibited drug greater than indictable and less than commercial quantity and two counts of possessing a prohibited drug.
Mr Prowse adjourned the case to October 11.
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