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A South Albury drug dealer caught also with a set of knuckledusters will stay in jail for three more months.
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Graeme Lindsay Sweeney has already been in custody for almost 18 months.
This week he was sentenced in the District Court in Albury to three years’ jail, with a minimum of 20 months.
But with time already served he will be eligible for release on December 1.
Sweeney, 53, pleaded guilty in June to supplying 37.2 grams of ice and possessing the knuckledusters, which are a banned weapon.
The drugs along with a large number of plastic bags, scales, a Taser and the knuckledusters were found when police raided his Olive Street home on April 2 last year.
Police, using a search warrant obtained the previous day, raided Sweeney’s house at 9.37am.
They found a plastic container containing a large amount of crystal substance on a table in the living room.
The substance was later weighed at 27.84 grams.
Next to the drugs were a large number of small plastic bags, a spoon and $300.
Police looked over a side fence, finding a blue cooler shopping back containing a clear plastic bag with a pink crystal substance.
Analysis showed this to be methorphan, a prohibited drug under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985.
Also inside the cooler bag was the Taser, three glass ice pipes, numerous smaller clear plastic resealable bags, scales, a spoon and lighter.
A similar bag containing Sweeney’s wallet, which contained $1215, was found inside the house.
Judge Gordon Lerve imposed the main sentence on Sweeney on two counts of supplying a prohibited drug and one of possess or use a prohibited weapon without a permit.
He was given 14 months’ jail with a minimum of eight months for possess a prohibited weapon and three months for dealing with property suspected to be the proceeds of crime.
Sweeney was convicted but given no further penalty on charges of possess prohibited drug, two counts of possessing equipment for administering a prohibited drug and posses a prohibited drug, namely the methorphan.