Daniel Robert Weekes, 38, was granted home detention bail by the Supreme Court after his partner, Stevie-Lee Marjorie Bassett, submitted photographs purportedly of his equipment collection.
Weekes, a “street-level drug dealer”, was arrested in July 2019 after telephone intercepts revealed he trafficked ice seven times between November 2018 and May 2018.
The phone calls revealed a code that referred to fishing, fishing rods and reels was used to discuss the trafficking operation.
At his home, police found two mobile phones, nearly $1000 cash, digital scales, plastic resealable bags, rubber bands and an ice pipe.
Weekes was refused bail by a magistrate but appealed the decision in the Supreme Court, where his lawyer was asked whether he had a fishing equipment business or could produce receipts for gear to back up his claim.
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