Jackson Bruce Watson charged with 30-plus offences including arson of motor vehicles

A 26-year-old man has had his charges dropped over a daylight shooting on a Warwick street . Police have now revealed why in his appearance over unrelated charges.

A 26-year-old man initially charged over a shooting on a Warwick street has had a series of unrelated charges against him adjourned by Toowoomba Magistrates Court.

Jackson Bruce Watson has been held in custody since his arrest in March and was not required to be in court on Friday when his matters were mentioned.

He was initially charged with grievous bodily harm arising from the alleged shooting of 37-year-old Warwick man Jason Martin on Wallace St, Warwick, about 9.20am, February 15.

However, that charge has since been withdrawn.

It is believed Mr Martin, who underwent surgery after the shooting and had since recovered, did not want to make a statement to police.

Warwick man Jackson Bruce Watson had his charges mentioned in Toowoomba Magistrates Court on September 30, 2022.

Watson was the subject of a three-week public search by police after the incident until he was eventually found by police in a room of a Toowoomba motel in March.

Watson is facing more than 30 unrelated charges including two counts of arson of motor vehicles allegedly in the Leyburn and Warwick areas as well as two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, three counts of disqualified driving, 13 counts of unlawfully using motor vehicles, one count of unlawful possession of a weapon and drug related matters.

He has not as yet been required to enter any pleas to those charges and none of the allegations have as yet been aired in court.

His solicitor Kirsten Nicholson, of Bell Dore Lawyers, told the court on Friday that she had been corresponding with the prosecution with submissions regarding certain of the charges.

She said she would have to take further instructions from her client.

Magistrate Kay Phillipson therefore adjourned the case for mention back in the same court on October 21 and remanded Watson in custody.