Following a police search earlier this year, an Eaton man has been fined $1500 for a collection of drug and stolen property charges.
Facing Bunbury Magistrates Court on Thursday, August 2, Ashley Shannon Partington waved the offer of seeking legal advice and pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis, cultivating cannabis, possessing drug paraphernalia, and two counts of possessing stolen or unlawfully obtained property.
“I don’t want legal advice, I just want to get it over and done with,” he said.
Police prosecutor sergeant Brian McCormack told the court about the events of a search in Partington’s Yeoman Court residence on March 3.
Officers found a small bag of cannabis, a cannabis plant, and a glass smoking implement on the property, all of which Partington admitted to owning for personal use.
Police also found a chainsaw believed to have been stolen.
Partington said he had bought the chainsaw in Bunbury, but, during their investigation, police found that the item had been stolen from a Harvey business four months prior.
During the search, police also uncovered a white iPad.
Police found the iPad had been stolen during a car break-in in Eaton last April.
In court, Partington said there was “no excuse” for his actions and that he was currently looking for work.
He said he had made a clean start, had moved to Mandurah, and was living with friends.
“I’m trying to get onto a straight-and-narrow path,” Partington said.
Magistrate Belinda Coleman accepted Partington’s early guilty pleas and acknowledged he had taken steps to improve his situation.
Partington was fined $1500 and ordered to pay costs for the search warrant.
Orders for the destruction of the drugs and the return of the stolen items were also granted.
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