MAGISTRATE'S COURT Australian youth had variety of drugs

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33814, 10 April 1975, Page 15

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Australian youth had variety of drugs

Police who stopped and, searched a car in Ashburton' at 1 a.m. on March 27 foundl a syringe for taking meth- [ adone, 497 taolets, five) 14 methadone tablets, five! ampules of the narcotic om-i nopon, five ampules of the prescription poison fortral, and seven gelatine tablets' containing cannabis, the Magistrate’s Court was told yesterday. Before Mr E. S. J. Crutch-, ley, S.M., was Peter Flecknoe Cliff, aged 19, an, Australian on holiday in' New Zealand. Cliff pleaded guilty to six charges of pos-i sessing the narcotics, poison,! and syringe and not guiltyi to a charge of importing: methadone on March 11. He was remanded on bail: to April 16. Sergeant T. Moore said! that after police searched: the car the defendant told: them that he had been re-1 ceiving treatment fot I heroine dependency. He had. been injecting himself with] methadone and also taking it I orally. Some of the drugs he: bought from a man in a, hotel in Invercargill, he said. ! GAOL FOR ASSAULT I A man who allegedly broke I the jaw of a woman he was: living with was gaoled for three! months on a charge of assault. 1 The term will be concurrent I with a 12-month sentence Richard i Sven Ornberg, aged 22. is al-i ready serving for theft. Ornberg (Mr T. M. Abbott) had denied assaulting Leola Helen i Hinds, aged 21, married, in the! public bar of a Wellington hotel in September.

Mrs Hinds said in evidence that she had wanted to return to Christchurch and Ornberg had promised her money to do so. She said she was punched in the face in a struggle in the hotel after she had brought up the subject of going to Christchurch.

Ornberg told the Court he followed Mrs Hinds to the bar door and was talking with her when an Islander walked up to them. He said he might have hit Mrs Hinds by mistake when he lashed out at the Islander who had looked menacing.

. PERIODIC DETENTION ' Wane Wossan, aged 40, was . sentenced to six months periodic [detention and placed on proba- | lion for 12 months on a charge ! of assault. He was also ordered to take' out a prohibition order far 12| ' months. The Magistrate said Wossan had hit John Petelo over the head with a beer jug while in-! toxicated. Wossan had no previous con-, victions, he said. STOLE CARS A man who stole one car from Auckland and another from Christchurch when the first was, converted, pleaded guiity to two! charges of theft. He is Eugene Patrick Davis,; aged 22, a driver, who was re-; irianded on bail to April 16 for sentence. TOOK CAR Roger John Keefe, aged 18,1 was remanded to April 16 for; sentence on charges of unlaw-I fully taking a car from Inver-; cargill on March 16 and stealing; petrol from a farmer at Makarora: on March 17. He pleaded guilty.! TWO OFFENCES A young man who stole a pair! of sunglasses from a car at Sum-1 ner on March 18 was remanded; on bail to April 16 when he! pleaded guilty to charges of theft ‘ and having instruments for burg-1 lary. He is Peter Raponi, aged 20.1 a linesman. Sergeant Moore said ‘ that; Raponi and an associate went to: Sumner with the intention of, breaking into cars and stealing radios. Raponi told the police he intended to sell the radios to; get money for drugs. PUNCHED ON CHEST !

A man who punched a night watchman on the chest and was found two hours later in the kitchen of a house in Antigua Street without lawful excuse Pleaded guilty to charges of assault and being unlawfully on premises.

He is Barlow Terrence Mahara. aged 32, who was convicted and remanded on bail to April 16 for sentence. THREE THEFTS

Lloyd George McLoughlin, aged 47, a sickness beneficiary, was remanded on bail to April 16 when he was convicted on his plea of guilty on three charges of theft.

Sergeant Moore said that between March 31 and April 2 the defendant stole a pair of gloves from a doctor’s residence, kept a wallet he found on the street, and stole clothing from the City

Mission when he stayed the night there. BURGLARY CHARGE Patrick Pete Winitana. aged 31, a labourer, was convicted on I bis plea of guilty to a charge lof burglary and remanded on [ bail to April 16. Sergeant T. Moore said that Winitana was found .in the hall l of a house in Waimea Terrace at 11.24 a.m. on March 21. Money [ was missing from a bottle in the kitchen, and was later found in a bedroom, the window of which Winitana had climbed through to get in. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL ! On a charge of driving with lan excessive blood-alcohol level (175 mg at Auckland on October 9, Loretta Anne Burrows, aged 126, was fined 8125 and disqualiified from driving for nine ; months. She pleaded guilty. .•Before Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M.) THREAT TO KILL Michael Patrick Howard, aged .26 iMr M. P. Boyce) was convicted and sentenced to one month’s I imprisonment, when he pleaded ; guilty to a charge of threaten- ; ing to kill a woman, on January • 8.

The imprisonment is to be served concurrently with a term of three months previously imposed on the defendant. The sentence is to be followed by probation for 12 months, and the defendant is to put his finances under tile probation officer.

Sergeant I. M. Gardiner said that at about 4.30 p.m. the defendant had gone to the complainant’s flat and asked her to go back to live with him. When the complainant left the room, Howard took a knife from a drawer and followed her, said Sergeant Gardiner. He had pointed the knife at her and said You will have it now.” When disturbed by another person, the defendant had put tlie knife away, and left. He returned later but refused to make a statement to the police

SET UP LOTTERIES ~.G e° r l W Patrick Aker, aged 33 (Mr L. M. O’Reilly) was fined 850, when he pleaded guilty to five charges of establishing a lottery I by which prizes were disposed of | by lot or other mode of chance between December 1 and 20. Sergeant Gardiner said tliat at the beginning of 1974, the defendant was a member of tlie Parent-Teacher Association at the Opawa Primary School. He was asked to join a Civil Defence group and was appointed area controller for the Opawa District. He had decided to raise funds for resident education in the Opawa sector and to purchase equipment. Tlie defendant got two application forms for running raffles, from the police station, said Sergeant Gardiner. One of these was completed, and posted. There were to be five sets of tickets each containing 199 tickets. There were four prizes of meat for the raffles. On December 14, said Sergeant Gardiner, the defendant placed! an advertisement in the news*! paper offering monev in return tor selling the raffle tickets. 1 The defendant called at the ponce station to applv for a permit to conduct a raffle. Later the Civil Defence office received a query from the parents of a child selling some of the raffle tickets. Inquiries at the police station revealed that no permit had been issued for the raffle, said Sergeant Gardiner.

The defendant got no personal gain from the raffles and was completely honest, he said. Mr O’ReiJlv submitted that the defendant had done a considerable amount of work for charitable causes, and gained nothing for himself by this.

After inquiries in the Onawa area it was found there was little knowledge of civil defence and it was planned to set un an education programme for it. The defendant had gone to the police station to get the application forms. H* 1 had nested one of thpse back. Th® permit did not arrive and as the drawing date for the raffle came nearer he had taken another application form to the police station THREE CHARGES

Robert Gordon Nesbitt, unemployed, was convicted and remanded on bail to April 16, when he pleaded guilty to three charges of unlawfully converting a car. THEFT David Stanley John Tranter, aged 24 (Mr P. H. B. Hall) was convicted and remanded on bail to April 16 after pleading not guilty to a charge of stealing eight cartons of jam. valued at $59.20. on October 7. FINED $75 William James Grafton, aged: 26, a motor mechanic (Mr D. J.: R. Holdetness) was fined 575,! i after pleading not guilty to ai charge of assaulting Brian Wat(son Dingwall, in the Darfield i Hotel, on November 2. Of the i fine $25 is to be paid to the comi plainant.