Man pays the price for ‘friend’ leaving drugs behind in his home
A Highfields man has paid the price for a friend leaving drugs behind in his home.
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A HIGHFIELDS man has paid the price of a friend leaving drugs behind in his home.
Police arrived at the home of Sean Andrew Waterson Clark about 6.45am, September 6, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.
A police officer who went around to the back of the house saw through a window the 33-year-old appear to secret something off the kitchen bench, police prosecutor Nikola Prince told the court.
The item turned out to be a plastic bag containing 1.9g of methamphetamine which he claimed he didn’t know how it got there, she said.
A police search of the home also turned up a registration plate in the shed which was reported stolen in 2016, Ms Prince said.
Clark had then become agitated and hurled verbal abuse at the police officers, calling them a derogatory term.
The 33-year-old pleaded guilty to charges of possessing a dangerous drug, obstructing police and receiving tainted property.
His solicitor Brad Skuse, of David Burns Lawyers, told the court his client’s plea of guilty to the drugs was on the grounds that there had been a number of people at his client’s home the night before the police search and that someone had left the drug behind.
His client spotted the item on the bench and tried to secret it, he said.
His client had no previous offences relating to drugs and he was upset that someone had left it there, Mr Skuse submitted.
Magistrate Graham Lee convicted and fined Clark $1000.