ABC Australia reports
A South Australian man has been sentenced to more than three years in jail after admitting to growing hundreds of cannabis plants on Crown land.
Key points:
- Police found almost 350 immature cannabis plants
- Ronald Herbert Nieuwenhuizen pleaded guilty to growing the drugs
- The judge described the offending as a “well-planned and sophisticated operation”
Ronald Herbert Nieuwenhuizen, 54, was immediately taken into custody after being sentenced in the District Court in Mount Gambier on Friday.
He had pleaded guilty to cultivating a commercial quantity of a controlled plant.
The court heard police searched a property at Beachport, on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, in November 2020 after receiving reports of an illegal firearm.
Officers instead found two plastic resealable bags containing cannabis, 54 cannabis seedlings and 345 immature cannabis plants growing over the fence on Crown land.
The owner of the property denied knowledge of the plants, leading police to search a caravan on the property in which Nieuwenhuizen was living.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-08/ronald-niewenhuizen-jailed-crown-land-cannabis-crop/101311634
