A 37-year-old Dunlop man has been arrested after being spotted by CCTV operators taking drugs in Civic early this morning (December 23).
At about 12.30am CCTV operators identified a man consuming drugs in Garema Place.
Police located and searched the man and found a significant quantity of drugs and cash, including:
- 14 x Diazepam tablets
- 32 x LSD Patches
- 4 x clip seal bags of suspected Cocaine
- 1x clip seal bag of suspected heroin
- 1x Xanax tablet
- 1x Modafinil tablet
- 1x Container of THC chewables
- $440 cash.
The drugs and cash were seized, and the man will be summonsed to appear before the magistrate’s court.
While legislation was passed in October to decriminalise small amounts of illicit drugs, the legislation does not come into effect until October, 2023. It currently remains a criminal offence to possess illicit drugs or pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription.
Who can be trusted?
In a world of spin and confusion, there’s never been a more important time to support independent journalism in Canberra.
If you trust our work online and want to enforce the power of independent voices, I invite you to make a small contribution.
Every dollar of support is invested back into our journalism to help keep citynews.com.au strong and free.
Thank you,
Ian Meikle, editor
![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
Read the full article on our website citynews.com.au
#canberra #canberranews](https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
Leave a Reply