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The court heard the firefighting drug dealer suffered a debilitating decade-long addiction to methamphetamine.
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Subscriber only A volunteer firefighter has been sentenced to a suspended period of imprisonment after a lengthy and debilitating methamphetamine addiction drove him to deal drugs at a Brisbane music festival. Albany Creek man James Daniel Reid, 28, pleaded guilty to 12 charges at the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court on Friday, January 29. James Reid received a suspended prison sentence for dealing drugs at a music festival in 2019. The court heard the charges, which included supplying dangerous drugs, possession of a weapon and driving under the influence of methamphetamines, were the culmination of a five page criminal history.
Drugs, screwdriver and a dog chase: Dad s big night out 25-year-old Josiah Thomas Britt was so black out drunk he couldn’t remember how he ended up in custody.
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Subscriber only A cocaine-fuelled night out at the Eatons Hill Hotel could have ended tragically for a Brisbane father-of-three when he threatened to steal a police officer s motorbike, walked into incoming traffic and struck a good Samaritan with a screwdriver, the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court heard on Thursday. Josiah Thomas Britt, 25, had been drinking heavily and taking drugs when he left the popular pub at around 10.20pm on December 10.
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Subscriber only Residents were evacuated and a grandfather was sent to jail when an abandoned methamphetamine lab was discovered in a north Brisbane apartment, the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court heard in a one-of-a-kind case on Friday. 54-year-old Brisbane man James Allan Hughes pleaded guilty to permitting use of place and possession of dangerous drugs. The items found were linked to the production of methamphetamine, with crystal residue found on several beakers. The court heard Hughes, who appeared via videolink from custody, was providing emergency housing to an injured male friend when police attended his home at Slater Ave, Lawnton on an unrelated matter at around 4.45am, October 26.