Seeds in post led to hydroponics pot bust

[Indycar]

ROANNE JOHNSON

 

July 7th, 2010

 

A CASTLE Hill man has been busted importing marijuana seeds from the UK to create his own home-grown hydroponics operation in a unit owned by his mother.

 

Australian Customs and Border Protection Service intercepted a package on August 16 last year.

 

It was headed to a local unit complex from Ireland addressed to a "Terry White".

 

Officers at a New South Wales port became suspicious after checks on the local residence revealed no one who lived at the address went by that name.

 

Upon further inspection of the package it was revealed to contain three packets with ten cannabis seeds each. The packets are sold legally overseas from a cannabis seeds supply company, under the brand names "Dutch Passion", "White Label" and "Flying Dutchman".

 

Brett James Dickson pleaded guilty yesterday in the Townsville Magistrates Court to several drug-related offences, including unlawfully producing, supplying and possessing a dangerous drug.

 

Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Greg Mobbs said the 36-year-old man was arrested when police attended a Castle Hill address. Officers went to the Mills St unit, owned by the defendant's mother, on June 12 this year.

 

Dickson admitted to police when they arrived that the seeds were his and then gave them a tour of his in-house hydroponics set-up.

 

"He revealed he was growing cannabis," Sen-Sgt Mobbs said.

 

"He showed police eight plants located in the bathroom off the main bedroom."

 

The prosecutor said the marijuana plants were being grown under a sophisticated hydroponics system. "They were under several lights, being ventilated by fans, using a power converter and an amount of fertiliser," he said.

 

While in the main bedroom 26g of cannabis were found in a bowl and more hydroponics lights located in the cupboard.

 

The defendant admitted buying the equipment from an online hydro store. In total 105g of cannabis was found in the unit.

 

A mobile phone was also seized with a text message revealing Dickson had supplied the drug to a friend in April, 2010.

 

However, he claimed to police he did not sell cannabis and that drug deal was "a one-off thing".

 

Defence lawyer Ali Lyons said Dickson, who is currently unemployed but once worked in real estate, turned to cannabis to address some health problems.

 

"He had two heart attacks two weeks apart in 2009 and suffers from anxiety,' Ms Lyons said.

 

"He took up smoking it when a friend offered it to him and he started growing it after that for personal use."

 

Magistrate Peter Smid did not record a conviction for the defendant who had a clean record.

 

Dickson was ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid community service.

 

Source: townsvillebulletin.com.au

 

Officers at a New South Wales port became suspicious after checks on the local residence revealed no one who lived at the address went by that name.

Seems their trying to throw people off with the methods of busting people with that bit of trivial info. There's next to no way they could possibly know that a "Terry White" (even though there's pharm shops trading under such name) is temporarily residing at the address or not.

 

Just if you're importing seeds, do your best to keep all bases covered as you'll never know if they'll act on a intercept or not.

 

[sativaindicaruderalis]

Terry white seems like they are trying to pull a fast one.

[UncleBully]

Very nice find Indy, Interesting for those like me who have imported several packets (all received though) and want to receive more.

[brick]

How come he was busted in NSW and went to court in Townsville? Or am I reading this wrongly.

[freddie]

How come he was busted in NSW and went to court in Townsville? Or am I reading this wrongly.

There's a Castle Hill in QLD near Townsville; not the NSW Castle Hill.

[brick]

There's a Castle Hill in QLD near Townsville; not the NSW Castle Hill.

 

Thanks freddie. Bit confused about that I was. I have relo's living in Castle Hill NSW. So his seeds got picked up by NSW customs.

They sure went to a lot of trouble to bust him.

[Nooby]

So how did they spot a lousy three packets of seeds?

I suspect there may be more going on than what they're telling us?

[loylty gets u nothing]

considerable time from interception till they raided too

that shit is a shit go

obviously not full on surveilence

but still something to be wary of

take ca re

bil

[brick]

Maybe his mum dobbed him in, after all it was her unit. May have been the only course for her to have taken. If she was against it or if she found out later. I agree gotta be more to this story than what the sensationalist media print.

[sativaindicaruderalis]

Maybe his mum dobbed him in, after all it was her unit. May have been the only course for her to have taken. If she was against it or if she found out later. I agree gotta be more to this story than what the sensationalist media print.

 

Father once told me that people only say half of what they are saying.