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Subscriber only A North Coast trio accused of supplying cocaine have had their case delayed for another month in court last week. Suffolk Park man Scott Edward Biber, 57, Broken Head man Michael Robert Birch, 67, and Lennox Head man Philip David Emanuele, 50, are each facing numerous charges related to the alleged supply of cocaine in the Byron Bay area. Philip David Emanuele leaves Tweed Heads Courthouse on March 12, 2021. Police will allege Mr Biber was found with 1.1kg of cocaine in his possession on January 9 last year. It is alleged he had the drug concealed in a fire extinguisher at the time.
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A court has heard a Byron Bay manâs personal cannabis plants were only discovered by police because a pursuit of two other people led officers right to his door.
Marco Alexander Menna, 34, faced Byron Bay Local Court on Monday.
He pleaded guilty to a single charge of cultivating a prohibited plant.
According to court documents, police were pursuing two males wanted over an unrelated incident late on the night of Thursday, February 11 this year when the pair entered Mennaâs Byron Bay home.
Police knocked and could hear people inside, but received no response, so they went around the side of the house, where eight cannabis plants were growing in a garden bed.
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Subscriber only A woman who frightened a pub manager when she waved knives around in public in a Byron Shire village will not be able to return to the location for a year. Juliette Elizabeth Kollmann, 47, appeared before Byron Bay Local Court via video link from custody on Monday. The Byron woman had been found guilty in her absence of wielding a knife in a public place, stalking or intimidating with intent to cause fear and destroying or damaging property when she failed to front court on January 6. She was also convicted of failing to appear in court in 2019.
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Subscriber only A dispute over forgotten bananas spiralled into threats to kill and extensive property damage at a Byron Shire property. Roger Glenn Cameron Clarke, 50, was staying with his brother, Ivan, and his brother s partner, Rhonda Rooklyn, at their Nashua property when the incident broke out on the evening of February 16 this year. According to court documents, Clarke began staying in a caravan and using an adjacent shed on the property late last year. On the morning on February 16, Clarke asked his brother to pick up some bananas for him while he was in town. Shortly before 1pm, Ivan returned and said he d forgotten the bananas, court documents said.