Police have charged a man allegedly found with drugs and an axe, while not complying with a public health order, during proactive patrols in Lake Macquarie yesterday.
About 7.25am (Thursday 9 April 2020), officers from Police Transport Command spoke to a 30-year-old man in the driver's seat of a parked car on Prosperity Drive, Morisset.
Police allege the man did not give a reasonable excuse for being there and upon searching him and the vehicle they found methamphetamine and a throwing axe.
The man was arrested and taken to Toronto Police Station, where he was charged with possess prohibited drug, fail to comply with requirement of public health order, have custody of an offensive implement, and breaching his bail conditions.
The man was refused bail and appeared via video link at Newcastle Local Court yesterday (Thursday 9 April 2020). He was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in Toronto Local Court on Friday 8 May 2020.
