Using dead friend’s medication and having drugs leads to big fine

A Toowoomba man was fined in court after he was found to be using medication that belonged to his dead friend to help him sleep at night.

The man told police he had used some of his dead friend’s medication to help him sleep, the court heard.

Having small amounts of illicit drugs and using someone else’s medication to help sleep has cost a Toowoomba man a $1200 fine.

Gregory Daniel Comin had been found with a total 2g of cannabis and a glass pipe, and three brass cones used for smoking the drug were found during a police search of a Commonwealth Street home in Clifton on July 13, last year.

The 37-year-old told police all the items were his for his own use, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

Another police search of a Murphys Creek residence on May 26 had turned up electric scales and grinder used in association with cannabis use as well as several boxes of medication which belonged to a woman who had lived at the address but had since died, police prosecutor Chris Willson told the court.

The medication found were considered Schedule 2 and 4 drugs, Senior Constable Willson said.

Comin told police he had used the scales and grinder for cannabis and had the medication which had belonged to his friend who had died and he admitted to taking some tablets to help him sleep.

He pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs and utensils and to three counts of possessing restricted drugs.

Solicitor Dan Creevey Jnr, of Creevey Russell Lawyers, told the court his client was now medicated for depression, anxiety and sleep issues.

His client was a spray painter by trade and had work lined up, he said.

Mr Creevey submitted the amounts of drug found were relatively minor.

Noting Comin had amassed four pages of criminal history, Magistrate Graham Lee convicted and fined him $1200.