Police found $13,000 cannabis haul

Press, 8 February 1986, Page 4

Police found $13,000 cannabis haul

Four kilograms of cannabis worth about $13,000, were found by police concealed in the bedroom of Ronald de Vries, said Sergeant J. W. Dwyer in the District Court yesterday. He said the cannabis, in 13 large bags, was found concealed behind a wardrobe panel when a search warrant was executed at the defendant’s Durham Street address. De Vries, aged 25, a self-employed furniture restorer (Mrs J. Rotherham), admitted possessing cannabis for supply. He was, convicted by Judge Pain and remanded to February 21 for a probation report and senfence Bail of $6OOO, and reporting to the police three times a week, set in the High Court, were continued. De Vries told police he had gathered the cannabis from various plantations in Canterbury in recent months.

MURDER CHARGE February 13 and 14 have been set down for the taking of depositions on a charge of murder laid against a woman, aged 31. Counsel, Mr G. N. Nation, said a psychiatric examination on his client had now been completed. Last week the defendant was remanded for a week for this purpose. The woman is charged with the murder of a baby boy, aged four months on or about January 14. Interim suppression of the names of the woman and the child was continued. ARSON CHARGE Bail was set at $lOOO each for two men charged ’ with wilfully setting fire to a house in Williams Street, Kaiapoi, on February 1. Adam Hopkinson, aged 17, and Stephen Shane Watt, aged 20, both unemployed, were remanded, without pleading, to February 17.