Cannabis, gun see man jailed
PA Auckland A former grand prix driver and speedway midget driver, Dexter John Dunlop, was sentenced to 21 years in jail when he appeared for sentence in the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday after having been found guilty of cultivating cannabis, dealing in a controlled drug, and possessing a pistol.
Drug-squad detectives had told the Court that they had found 114 cannabis plants at Dunlop’s farm. Mr Justice Thorp said Dunlop had been involved in harvesting a significant crop of cannabis. At the time the cannabis had been found a .38 pistol loaded with six bullets had also been discovered. ' Forty-one spent shells had been lying about. He accepted that the pistol has not;-, been bought originally .for the cannabis business but it was not sensible to regard the presence of the pistol, as completely unconnected with the crop. He jailed Dunlop for 18 months ,on .the cannabis charges and 12 ; months for possessing, the pistol, the sentences to be cumulative.
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Press, 29 March 1980, Page 6
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