Would i stil get in trouble

trick_xd · 12-03-2006, 09:02 PM

O.K. i do a bit of back yard work
and today i got a car droped off at my place
and it still has the remains (freezer bag full maybe ?)
of Mull in there ..
when i quoted on the job last weekend i told them to clean out the car with all there "stuff" and they did
BUT
What i want to know is
If for some reason the cops come to my place and this stuff is in THERE LOCKED CAR
Will I get into trouble for it ?

**Full Noise** · 12-03-2006, 09:09 PM

My guess is most likely yes. You’d have a hard time convincing a cop it wasn’t yours if it’s on your property.

Cheers, Danny

trick_xd · 12-03-2006, 09:20 PM

Thats what im thinking

I dont want to ring the cops and ask them they will probley just come around and take me or the car
The chick just told me before that she cant pay for a few weeks and keep her car here till she pays it off
and if i give her the car she probley wont pay .. I think i know what she spends her money on now ..
Bugga the long weekend I will have to ring a lawyer on tuesday for advice ..

TURBOTAXI · 12-03-2006, 09:20 PM

The question is if you knew it was there, and if it could be proven.

pauljh74 · 12-03-2006, 09:26 PM

stash the weed - bury the bag in the garden perhaps and if she doesn't pay, withhold the weed and car - she won't go without both

Redrum · 12-03-2006, 09:29 PM

The offences we would be looking at are possesion DOD, depending on qty and other items found, cultivate and traffick DOD. In regard to possession of a drug of dependence we would need to prove your knowledge of the item and prove it was in your sole possession or prove many in possession. For example I did a warrant on a house and found 199 cannabis seedlings. Four people lived in the house. Only one admitted to knowledge of the plants and had hidden them from police just prior to our arrival. She admitted this. One she had knowledge and two she hid them, showed a guilty mind. I can only charge her.

Does anyone else have access to your car, could have anyone else put the items there etc, they would be the issues looked at.

nugget378 · 12-03-2006, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Redrum

The offences we would be looking at are possesion DOD, depending on qty and other items found, cultivate and traffick DOD. In regard to possession of a drug of dependence we would need to prove your knowledge of the item and prove it was in your sole possession or prove many in possession. For example I did a warrant on a house and found 199 cannabis seedlings. Four people lived in the house. Only one admitted to knowledge of the plants and had hidden them from police just prior to our arrival. She admitted this. One she had knowledge and two she hid them, showed a guilty mind. I can only charge her.

Does anyone else have access to your car, could have anyone else put the items there etc, they would be the issues looked at.

You do not have to prove anything,It's the police who have to prove you guilty,that's how our system works,knowledge of a crime itself is not illegal

XRQTOR · 12-03-2006, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by nugget378

You do not have to prove anything,It's the police who have to prove you guilty,that's how our system works,knowledge of a crime itself is not illegal

By the sounds of that he's a copper.

Dave_au · 13-03-2006, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by nugget378

knowledge of a crime itself is not illegal

I believe the correct term is "accessory after the fact".

CRIMES ACT 1914

Part IA - General

SECTION 6 Accessory after the fact

6 Any person who receives or assists another person, who is, to his knowledge, guilty of any offence against a law of the Commonwealth, in order to enable him to escape punishment or to dispose of the proceeds of the offence shall be guilty of an offence.

flappist · 13-03-2006, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Redrum

The offences we would be looking at are possesion DOD, depending on qty and other items found, cultivate and traffick DOD. In regard to possession of a drug of dependence we would need to prove your knowledge of the item and prove it was in your sole possession or prove many in possession. For example I did a warrant on a house and found 199 cannabis seedlings. Four people lived in the house. Only one admitted to knowledge of the plants and had hidden them from police just prior to our arrival. She admitted this. One she had knowledge and two she hid them, showed a guilty mind. I can only charge her.

Does anyone else have access to your car, could have anyone else put the items there etc, they would be the issues looked at.

Can you not read between the lines here trick_xd.

blu falc · 12-03-2006, 09:32 PM

bury the weed with something that will break it down (lime?) and just leave the car where it is. If she says "WTF!" about the weed then say "I told you to clear out the car"

Blair_355 · 12-03-2006, 09:24 PM

I think personally tell her to come and get it.

nugget378 · 12-03-2006, 09:32 PM

you have no duty to help the police in an investigation, but dont lie if asked that could get you into trouble, saying nothing is not a crime, being asked and concealing it is

trick_xd · 12-03-2006, 09:38 PM

there is just a hole heap of the stuff all over the car little bits of leafs and stuff .
ok well i just unlocked her car and put a tarp thing over it so nothing can be seen.

Blair_355 · 12-03-2006, 09:50 PM

if it is scattered everywhere give it a quick vacume.

svo347 · 12-03-2006, 09:58 PM

Ask yourself... why exactly would the police just come knocking on your door.......

trick_xd · 12-03-2006, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by svo347

Ask yourself... why exactly would the police just come knocking on your door.......

There is a Tool that lives next door that the cops keep comeing for and a lot of the time they come over here and ask me if i have seen him in the last few days

I just closed my gates so ppl will have to go the the front door now ... not walk straight past the car to my door

Falcon_Phill · 12-03-2006, 10:02 PM

Smoke it, sell the car. Tell her thats what she gets for not cleaning it out properly.

XRQTOR · 12-03-2006, 10:37 PM

Wipe the bag down and leave it in the car, it's got nothing to do with you if she's a junkie. It all comes down to proof and if they can't prove it's yours your right.

HOON69 · 12-03-2006, 10:50 PM

get rid of the stuff keep the car till paid in full and say no more

or burn stuff get rid of car and deal with more legit ppl's in future

thats the 2 options i'd advise on the matter

clontarf_x · 13-03-2006, 12:43 AM

I'd be getting rid of the car ASAP. The fact shes asked you to hold it for a while could mean shes keeping the car away from the long arm of the law for one reason or another.....

I would certainly keep myself out of the ИИИИ, drive the car back and tell her to check more carefully next time.....

Psycho Chicken · 13-03-2006, 01:07 AM

Yep, get rid of it. Not worth the hassle.

Pedro · 13-03-2006, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trick_xd

O.K. i do a bit of back yard work
and today i got a car droped off at my place
and it still has the remains (freezer bag full maybe ?)
of Mull in there ..
when i quoted on the job last weekend i told them to clean out the car with all there "stuff" and they did
BUT
What i want to know is
If for some reason the cops come to my place and this stuff is in THERE LOCKED CAR
Will I get into trouble for it ?

By what you say, you havn't started on her car yet, so why don't you just ask her to come and collect her stuff?????????

trick_xd · 13-03-2006, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedro

By what you say, you havn't started on her car yet, so why don't you just ask her to come and collect her stuff?????????

I Started on it at her place To help out a M8s G/F
I have allready done a fair bit just to get it running
Now That it runs I have to replace the Head as she cracked it .

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Originally Posted by 302donk

why did you take the job on in the first place if you new she was trouble?????????

I do a Heap of backyard jobs it helps to keep the house running and money to mod my cars , go on Holidays that sort of thing .
I dont think she will couse trouble for me she seems o.k.
but you never know .
If i let the car out now I might never get payed for it OR i Might be waiting for a long time.
For People that i dont know well , i give them the car they give me money. and never any probs .
When i seen this stuff i told her to get rid of it ..
I was talking to her today about it and she said that she cleaned it up best she could as her vacume cleaner dont have a hose so she pulled the plants and "Gave it a quick Brush"

Maybe i should stop stressing about it and just Plod on like normale.

302donk · 13-03-2006, 11:09 AM

why did you take the job on in the first place if you new she was trouble?????????

deesun · 13-03-2006, 04:05 PM

So you are saying it is all on the floor not actually in a car? So whats your problem, how on earth are you supposed to know what it is? Are you a horticulturist? Different if it was in a bag or something but not just on the floor.

Wokkas · 13-03-2006, 04:29 PM

Is dope really that illegal over there? Geeeee.

If that was here and the cops found it, they'd sit down and smoke half of it with you.

Honestly, don't you think you're being a little bit paranoide? Have the cops ever looked inside cars you've worked on before?

MoreHPformyXR6 · 13-03-2006, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trick_xd

O.K. i do a bit of back yard work
and today i got a car droped off at my place
and it still has the remains (freezer bag full maybe ?)
of Mull in there ..
when i quoted on the job last weekend i told them to clean out the car with all there "stuff" and they did
BUT
What i want to know is
If for some reason the cops come to my place and this stuff is in THERE LOCKED CAR
Will I get into trouble for it ?

Its possible if the Police track you down after reading your post.

Jet-Star · 13-03-2006, 04:50 PM

Hows about leave the mul bag and just do the work...Its her problem not yours, and do you really want to handle the bag, tamper with posible evidence and incriminate your self further?