Court orders Toowoomba teen to forfeit almost $11,000 cash
A Toowoomba teenager has been ordered to forfeit almost $11,000 cash found during a police search of his home which police suspected was the proceeds of drug crime.
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A TOOWOOMBA teenager has been ordered to forfeit almost $11,000 cash found with him which police suspected was the proceeds of drug crime.
A police search of Koby Ryan Hill’s home on December 22, last year, had found the cash, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.
Suspecting the cash to be proceeds of drugs, police confiscated the money and charged the 18-year-old under proceeds of drugs misuse act.
He appeared in the Toowoomba Supreme Court on August 31 and was placed on two years probation.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Julia Wheaton told the court the teenager had then failed to report to police as part of his bail conditions on October 14, telling police he had forgotten to sign in.
He pleaded guilty to possession of property suspected of being the proceeds of an offence under the drugs misuse act and to breaching bail.
His solicitor Joe McConnell, of MacDonald Law, told the court these matters were just clear-up charges and that Justice Callaghan in the Supreme Court had already ordered the forfeiture of the cash.
Magistrate Graham Lee fined Hill $250 on the breach of bail charge with no conviction recorded and imposed no further penalty on the possession of cash charge.