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Accused drug trafficker refused bail
By Suzanne Klotz
January 10, 2007 04:09pm
Article from: AAP
A MAN accused of being the major player in a $10 million drug
operation has been refused bail by a Brisbane magistrate.
Jamie William Williamson, 26, is charged with three counts each of
supplying and possessing dangerous drugs, as well as two counts of
trafficking, one of possessing anything for use in a drug crime and
one of possessing weapons.
A police raid on a shed at Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, on December
4 last year, netted a haul which included 2.5kg of
methylamphetamines, 8kg of cannabis, 2,000 ecstasy tablets, and
$579,000 in cash as well as weapons.
In a bail application in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today,
police prosecutor Sergeant Estelle Carnes said Mr Williamson's
arrest had been the culmination of two years of meticulous and
painstaking police investigations.
"The defendant is the major player, the controller, the one who
handles all the money, who holds all the cards so to speak,'' Sgt
Carnes said.
She said Mr Williamson should stay in jail for his own protection,
as he had links to the Finks motorcycle gang, so there were fears
for his own safety.
Mr Williamson also posed a flight risk, and there were further
charges pending against him, Sgt Carnes said.
In a bail application, barrister Denis Lynch argued that Mr
Williamson had handed himself to police yesterday, after returning
from an overseas holiday earlier this month.
Mr Lynch said the case against Mr Williamson was largely
circumstantial, a conviction was not inevitable, and it would take
an estimated two years to get the matter to trial.
He said his client, who operated a sports store in Toowoomba, had
lived there all his life, and owned property there.
If granted bail, Mr Williamson would live with his mother, who could
offer a $50,000 surety, Mr Lynch said.
Magistrate Tina Previtera said police surveillance linked Mr
Williamson to the shed in which the drugs and cash were found, keys
to the shed were found on his person, and he was seen moving
containers to and from the shed.
She refused bail on the basis of the large number of serious charges
and because Mr Williamson was an unacceptable risk of failing to
appear, of committing further offences and of interfering with
witnesses.
She remanded Mr Williamson in custody to reappear for committal
mention in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on February 13.
