A drug user was caught with 122 grams of cannabis in a police bust near Katherine after a not so elaborate plan to hide the drugs inside a Twisties box.
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Darwin’s Supreme Court was told earlier this month that Stanley Kerr, 32, of Numbulwar was travelling through Katherine on the way back home from Darwin when he was caught.
While stopped in Katherine, he went to the Woolworth’s store in the shopping centre and bought some plastic bags and a box of single serve Twisties.
Kerr split the cannabis between the bags and “pushed the three bags of cannabis into the bottom of that (Twisties) box and made it look as though the box had not been opened because you put it in through the bottom”.
“Then you put the box into a plastic bag,” Justice Judith Kelly said.
Then Kerr hopped aboard a Bodhi Bus for Numbulwar on August 10, 2017 with the plastic bag with the box of Twisties and cannabis in his backpack.
“The bus stopped at the Katherine weighbridge so police could search the bus for liquor and they also took a drug-detector dog onto the bus,” Justice Kelly said.
“The drug-detector dog gave a conditioned response to the backpack.
“A police officer inspected the bag, opened the box and found the cannabis. You admitted that there was cannabis in the box and that the box belonged to you.
“It is conceded by the Crown that you bought the cannabis to use yourself personally.”
The court was told Numbulwar was a dry community.
Police arrested Kerr and took him to the Katherine Watchhouse and he later pleaded guilty to the drug charges.
The court was told Kerr had prior convictions – one for supplying a dangerous drug (2014) and one for possessing a traffickable quantity of cannabis (2015).
“As a juvenile and a young man, you also had a significant number of convictions for violent offences and offences of dishonesty, but the last of those was in 2009,” Justice Kelly said.
She said because Kerr had pleaded guilty and had already served 26 days imprisonment on the charge he would be sentenced to the minimum of 28 days prison for the charge, meaning he was released two days later.
She also fixed a long list of conditions on his release from custody including a year’s probation, agree to not use drugs and be subject to drug testing, plus also take part in a residential rehabilitation program.
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