Detectives have charged two people with drugs and weapons offences after police seized over $75,000 in cash along with a gun, boat and drugs.
It will be alleged at 3.15am police observed a man in Ballentine Street at Clinton. When police approached the man, he threw a small black bag onto the roof of a nearby building and ran away. Police chased the man and located him a short time later. A search of the bag located 68 grams of methylamphetamine and a pen gun. It will be further alleged the man was carrying $6,065 in cash.
At 9.30am police executed a search warrant at a Hansen Street in Clinton address and located $48,550 in cash and a small vial of human growth hormone.
At 10am yesterday police executed a search warrant at a Calliope River Road at West Stowe residence. Police located clips seal bags containing 50 grams of methylamphetamine, $21,500 in cash, scales, seven glass pipes and a boat.
A 52-year-old Clinton man has been charged with 15 charges including one count of trafficking in dangerous drugs, four counts of possession of a dangerous drug (methylamphetamine, LSD and methylenedioxymethamphetamine), two counts of possession of property obtained from trafficking (cash) and one count each of possession of explosives (ammunition), possession of restricted drug (human growth hormone), and possession of category A weapon.
A 46-year-old West Stowe woman has been charged with four counts of possession of dangerous drug (methylamphetamine, lysergic acid, oxycodone), three counts of possession of a restricted drug (modafinil, tramadol and pregabalin), two counts of possession of property suspected of been proceeds of a drug offence (cash) three counts of possession of utensil and one count of possession of property obtained from trafficking (boat).
Both will appear in the Gladstone Magistrates Court today, October 9.
