Five arrested after robbery

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33775, 22 February 1975, Page 16

Five arrested after robbery

t.Vew Zealand Frees Association)

AUCKLAND, February 21.

Five young people appeared in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court today on charges arising from police investigations into an armed robbery at Remuera yesterday.

A young woman admitted a charge of offering to sell LSD, a husband and wife admitted possessing LSD and two young men were charged with armed robbery. Judith Margaret Brew, aged 21, a bindery assistant, of Remuera, appeared before Mr B. H. Blackwood, S.M., and admitted offering to supply Stephen John Hilton with the narcotic LSD.

The police prosecutor, Sergeant L. R. Hall, said that at 3.30 p.m. yesterday two men were arrested in possession of LSD.

Inquiries revealed that the drug had been taken from premises in Remuera. Later, drug squad detectives interviewed Brew and she said that a man had called on her and asked if she had any drugs. Brew told the man she had access to LSD.

She told the police she intended selling the drug at $3 a tablet. PULLED GUN

When Brew returned -with the LSD the man pulled a

Sergeant Hall said that after an armed robbery at Remuera drug squad detectives picked up two men in possession of LSD and later interviewed the Hansards at the Remuera address. FINES The couple admitted being the owners of the drug but said they had the LSD for their own personal use and not for supply to others. The Magistrate told thg couple he intended treating them as first offenders, and find both $lOO. Later, in another court, Stephen John Hilton and Graham Harvey Rix, both of Remuera, appeared before Mr H. Y. Gilliand, S.M., charged jointly with armed robbery. They entered no plea to a charge of robbing Judith Margaret Brew of stereo equipment, household appliances; 70 long-playing records, and $7, while armed with a sawnoff shotgun. The Magistrate refused a bail application and remanded both men in custody to Feb- ' ruary 28 to set a date for the j hearing of depositions.

I firearm and she was forced Ito give him the narcotic. I Brew admitted that if the iman had not produced the gun she would have sold the ;LSD to him. The Magistrate convicted Brew and remanded her in i custody to February 28 for a probation report and sentence.

Gary John Hansard, aged 22, a laboratory technician, of Remuera, and his wife, Adrienne Phyllis Hansard, a 22-year-old typist, pleaded guilty before Mr Blackwood to a charge of possessing LSD.