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Subscriber only A Ballina man will spend at least two years in prison for supplying ice across the Northern Rivers. Peter Maurice Cooper, 48, was arrested in March last year following a police investigation into the supply of methylamphetamine in the Ballina area. He had since pleaded guilty to supplying a prohibited drug on more than three occasions in the Ballina and Goonellabah areas. Cooper, between February 26 and March 25, 2020, supplied the probated drug on 19 separate occasions, ranging from 0.35g to 3.5g at a time, according to court documents. A man will face court today after stolen property and drugs were located during a search warrant at a Ballina home yesterday.
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Subscriber only A Queensland man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on the Far North Coast but is disputing he was using heroin at the time and denies speed was the cause that led to another man being seriously injured. Darren Rodney Stevens appeared via video link in Lismore District Court on Monday, where he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm. The court heard Stevens had been driving a Toyota Camry on March 4, 2019, at Rock Valley, near Lismore, when his car was involved in an impact. A man in the other vehicle was injured as a result of Stevens dangerous driving, which he has admitted to on Monday.
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Subscriber only The trial against two men accused of setting a man on fire and leaving him to die has been adjourned for the third time. Aydin Christopher Brown, 31, and Mark Gary Brown, 30 are both accused of the attempted murder of Benn Peterson in July 2017. It is alleged Mr Peterson was bashed and set on fire on Kyogle Rd, Kunghur, near Uki, by the two men. Police will also allege the pair kidnapped Phillip Green on the same day. Aydin Christopher Brown is facing serious charges, including that of attempted murder, over a 2017 incident at Kunghur. Both men are each expected to defend one charge of causing wounding or grievous bodily harm to a person with intent to murder and taking or detaining a person in company with intent to get advantage and occasioning actual bodily harm.
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Subscriber only A North Coast man convicted of threatening police and refusing to comply with COVID-19 rules has won his appeal to lessen his sentence. James Desmond Murphy, 38, appeared before Lismore District Court on Wednesday for his appeal hearing. The Banora Point man was convicted in December 2020 of not complying with a direction about the COVID-19 pandemic, failing to leave when required, using offensive language in public, intimidating police, and intimidation. He was then sentenced to a concurrent nine-month fixed-term sentence, however, he was granted bail in December. Court documents reveal Murphy went to the Ivory Tavern in Tweed Heads on August 10, 2020.