Drug carrier flagged down — by police

Press, 7 May 1980, Page 4

Drug carrier flagged down — by police

' Expecting to be flagged down by a blue Monaro car on his way to Timaru, a young man received a fright when the car flagging him down turned out to be a police car. In a statement read in the District ■ Court yesterday, Peter James Cahill, aged 23, a freezing worker, pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis plant and resin in a depositions hearing before Messrs W. H. Dear and V. C. Empson. Justices of the Peace. He said that he had met a man at a hotel in Christchurch on March 1. In, the . toilets of the hotel the man had handed him a bag of I cannabis and . told him to , take it to Timaru with him i the following day. i The defendant, who had I come to Christchurch from Oamaru to see a concert, I agreed to deliver the bag to 1 someone in a blue Holden 1 Camaro. who would flag him, down near Timaru. He j would be given $5O by the t driver of the car. 1 All went according to plan I until the defendant was I flagged down by the police who found the bag of can- f nabis in his utility car. < He was released on bail / and committed to appear in I the High Court for sentence t at a date to be decided. f