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Premium Content Subscriber only Two Sunshine Coast men have been jailed after being caught growing almost 400 marijuana plants in a sophisticated hydroponic set-up in the Mary Valley. Eumundi's Steven John Douglas Best, 48, and Cooroy's Stephen John Halpin, 53, pleaded guilty in Gympie District Court on Thursday to multiple charges of producing and possessing the dangerous drug along and possessing items related to its production and use. The court heard police seized 49.5kg of marijuana at a Carter's Ridge property, including 18kg of dried leaves. The two men were growing the drug at a p...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Gympie region pensioner that is required to report to police every three months faced court on Monday for failing to report late last year. Raymond Neville Birt, 70 from Carters Ridge, had been reporting to police for almost 20 years, his lawyer told Gympie Magistrates Court and this was the first time he had failed to do so she said.