Ice addict caught in car wash with magic mushrooms, GHB, ammo
A man wasn’t feeling so magic when police saw him slumped in the driver’s seat of a Holden parked in a car wash. They searched the car and found illegal mushrooms, GHB, ammo and stolen plates. And he had quite the excuse.
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An ice-addict with a history of trafficking was found by police passed out in a car wash in a vehicle with stolen plates and a stash of magic mushrooms, GHB and ammunition inside.
Drug-addled Daniel Richard Blee was seen by highway officers at 4.50pm on June 23 slumped in the driver’s seat of his Holden at the Carrum Downs car wash in an unresponsive state.
They initially struggled to rouse him, but when he finally woke they searched his car and found an array of drugs, a shotgun round and more stolen number plates.
Blee has a history of drug crimes, having served a 12-month jail term in the past for trafficking meth.
The 32-year from Carrum Downs pleaded guilty to theft, drug, driving and weapons charges at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
When questioned by police at the car wash he denied driving, saying he “didn’t know how he had got there”.
Blee said he had lent the vehicle to a mate — who he wouldn’t name — for a few weeks so the drugs and ammunition must have belonged to them.
He was wanted on warrants at the time, and was arrested and remanded in custody.
He had also shoplifted $157 of groceries from Carrum Downs IGA in May last year and was found with a stolen bank card which he used to buy $84 worth of items from a Seaford servo in January 2019.
His defence lawyer said Blee was “not a stranger to the justice system”, but had not been before a court in the past three years.
She said this was low level offending compared to some of his previous crimes, and on this occasion he had relapsed and associated again “with the wrong people”.
She said he had good prospects of rehabilitation, a trade to go back to — he’s a mechanic — and could live with his grandmother upon release.
She said he was “disappointed” in himself and knows he needs to make better decisions in his life.
Magistrate Ross Betts said this offending, particularly regarding his history, was serious enough to warrant a prison term.
Blee was jailed for 21 days, minus the nine days he has already served.
He was also convicted and fined $500.
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