Search finds weapons and drugs

POLICE found drugs, an air rifle and a knuckleduster when they searched a shed where Logan Thomas Herbert goes to "calm down".

Police went to a home in Brock Crt, Darling Heights, where Herbert lives with his parents, as he was having a loud argument with his mother at 4pm on May 11.

Herbert, 26, was agitated and said he suffered from anxiety.

Prosecutor Sergeant Tony Costa said Herbert was asked how he usually dealt with his anxiety and he pointed to a shed he used to calm down.

It had been converted into a recreation area with a lounge chair and TV.

Sgt Costa said police searched the shed and found a homemade air rifle, 19.2 grams of marijuana, a knuckleduster, and items used to prepare and smoke drugs, including a bong, scissors and an electric grinder.

Herbert appeared in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs, two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon, and possessing utensils or pipes.

The court heard Herbert made the air rifle in high school to shoot paintballs and was unaware he required a licence.

He bought the hard plastic knuckleduster from a market and again did not know it was illegal to own.

Magistrate Bruce Schemioneck fined Herbert $1500.

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