David Alan Oddy was committed for sentence in the District Court after fronting Albury Local Court via a video link to Junee jail this week.

The Albury drug unit’s investigation was set-up to probe the activities of Clint Roy Parkinson.

Parkinson’s case was also before magistrate Rodney Brender.

He was committed for trial on seven drug supply-related charges, the case adjourned to the District Court in Albury on August 13.

Parkinson pleaded guilty to a fresh charge of use false documentation to influence public duty. Oddy’s sentencing will be at the sittings beginning September 24.

Oddy’s case was adjourned for sentencing after the 67-year-old pleaded guilty to a single charge of deemed to supply a prohibited drug or supply prohibited drug of an indictable quantity.

Five other drug-supply matters will travel with that charge. A Director of Public Prosecutions representative said five charges would be withdrawn at the District Court sentence hearing.

But that was provided Oddy maintained his guilty plea.

In agreed facts, the prosecution said the drug unit’s Strike Force Stoutland was set-up in August to investigate Parkinson, a member of the Bandidos who had been trying to set-up an Albury-Corowa chapter of the outlaw motorcycle gang.

Police monitored phone conversations between Oddy and Parkinson, along with Parkinson’s fiancee, Alina Yousif, whose matters remain before the court.

From this, Oddy was charged with several cannabis supply charges over deals between October 23 and November 1.

One charge related to 55.5 grams of methamphetamine that Oddy collected in Melbourne before being arrested on the return trip after his ute was pulled over on the Hume Highway on November 2.

A police search of the ute at 7.30am the next day uncovered the “ice” inside a gas cylinder in the tray.