Mitchell Green: Druggie career crook had silencer, gun, ammo
‘Danger to the community’: A meth-peddling middleman who was paid in ice was found with weapons hidden in a Somerville shed.
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A 50-year-old ice-abusing criminal who has spent half of his adult life in and out of jail is again behind bars after he admitted another raft of drugs and weapons crimes.
Mitchell Green, who also goes by the name of Mitchell Greene, was caught out after cops raided a Mt Eliza hotel and found him with ice.
Officers then searched his Somerville house and uncovered a gun, silencer and boxes and boxes of ammo.
He pleaded guilty to drugs, weapons and bail breach charges at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
The court heard on May 5 this year an acquaintance of Green’s gave him $2000 to buy ice, which he duly did in exchange for 1g of the product as ‘middleman commission’.
The pair then met at a Mt Eliza hotel room but cops were onto him and he was arrested and searched, with officers uncovering 4.8g of ice in his backpack.
While he was in the cells they raided the Somerville house he shared with his partner, locating a sawn-off rifle with silencer attached, a loaded magazine and an array of ammunition in a shed.
Green was on bail at the time of these offences over a carjacking and assault.
In November last year he crashed a motorbike in Mornington and did a runner, but left behind his helmet and his wallet containing ID and 2.3g of ice.
That accident was symptomatic of his poor riding – he was spectacularly photographed smashing his motorbike into a taxi during a police chase in 2013.
And in 2019 he was jailed for drug-riding without a licence on a stolen motorbike which had been decked out with fake plates.
Magistrate Fiona Stewart said Green has been in and out of jail all his life and she wouldn’t be able to sentence him without an in-depth mental assessment report.
“He has been a really serious danger to the community,” Ms Stewart said.
“(He acts) in a violent manner, on an ongoing basis.
“His shocking drug and alcohol use has had to have some impact on his psychological wellbeing.”
Green will face court again on November 18.
