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A Rockhampton magistrate felt a manâs $1000 hydroponic marijuana set-up had some âsmellâ of commerciality.
Steven Patrick McMullen, 41, pleaded guilty on May 12 in Rockhampton Magistrates Court to one count of producing a dangerous drug, possessing a dangerous drug and possessing items used in the commissioning of a drug crime.
Police prosecutor Zoe Melksham said police executed a search warrant at a Rockhampton address at 1.30pm on March 17 while McMullen was at work.
She said McMullen told police he had marijuana plants in the backyard near the pool.
Ms Melksham said police located three one-metre tall marijuana plants in the yard and two 3cm tall seedling plants in the bar area.
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Manâs alleged house of horrors revealed Police allege a man who threatened to âseverâ his girlfriendâs spinal cord and called himself the âExterminatorâ tormented her over several terrifying months.
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Subscriber only A man who allegedly turned his Logan home into a violent house of horrors, where police allege he sprayed the word slut over the walls, hit his girlfriend and himself with a hammer and threatened to drill in her kneecaps has been denied bail. Matthew John Hill, from Slacks Creek, appeared via video link from prison at the Beenleigh Magistrates Court for a bail application hearing on Wednesday.
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