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7 Gregory Avenue
Laboratory
The biggest precursor find of the addresses the judgments name.
Methamphetamine was then manufactured by them at various locations including clandestine laboratories located at Cashel St, Main South Road, Maunsell Street and 7 Gregory Avenue.
R v McKenzie [2013] NZHC 3351 [4]
Various types of substances containing pseudoephedrine were located at the addresses; the largest amount, 638 grams of ContactNT capsules and some 4,500 pseudoephedrine tablets
R v McKenzie [2013] NZHC 3351 [5]
This level of product could produce between 136.35-314.61 grams of methamphetamine.
R v McKenzie [2013] NZHC 3351 [5]
Large amounts of cash were also found totalling $134,855.
R v McKenzie [2013] NZHC 3351 [5]
On the record Lance Lee (occupant of the address, named in the judgment)
Sentence No sentence for Mr Lee appears in this record.
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642 Main South Road
Laboratory
The address where the judgments list chemicals, glassware and a tablet count.
Mr Harris, you in fact acknowledge manufacturing of methamphetamine, the possession of precursor substances and associated equipment at 642 Main South Road
R v Harris [2012] NZHC 2942 [3]
It is nevertheless difficult to quantify the amounts manufactured at 642 Main South Road. There was however a large number of substances and various items of equipment used to manufacture methamphetamine located at those premises.
R v Harris [2012] NZHC 2942 [4]
The substances included phosphorous acid, toluene, iodine, sodium hydroxide and acetone.
R v Harris [2012] NZHC 2942 [4]
A set of hot plates, various reaction flasks, conical flasks, a pH meter, steam distiller and submersible pump
R v Harris [2012] NZHC 2942 [4]
Notably 416 pseudoephedrine tablets were located in the kitchen hidden in a box for scales.
R v Harris [2012] NZHC 2942 [4]
There was also cash in two bundles of $2,300 and $10,000.
R v Harris [2012] NZHC 2942 [4]
.22 calibre bullets and a .22 calibre revolver, two firearms and a plastic stun gun
R v Harris [2012] NZHC 2942 [5]
Similarly, various items involved in the production of methamphetamine, including precursor items were identified at 642 Main South Road.
R v Smith [2012] NZHC 3003 [4]
On the record Richard Harris; Matthew Leslie Smith
Sentence Harris: 3y 6m on manufacture, 4y effective. Smith: 3y 7m on manufacture, 3y 10m effective.
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6/32 Cashel Street (apartment)
Laboratory
The inner-city apartment used to store drug items and to manufacture.
permitting premises that you occupied to be used for storing drug items and manufacturing methamphetamine and acting as a gofer for Mr Newton.
R v Aitken [2012] NZHC 2901 [2]
Quantities of methamphetamine and drug related items were found, including 81 grams of methamphetamine, scales, large numbers of gram deal bags and point bags, cash of $22,100 and cannabis.
R v Aitken [2012] NZHC 2901 [2]
including clandestine laboratories located at Cashel St, Main South Road, Maunsell Street and 7 Gregory Avenue.
R v McKenzie [2013] NZHC 3351 [4]
On the record Matthew Newton; Tane Aitken
Sentence Aitken: home detention, 8 months as reported.
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Maunsell Street
Laboratory
Named as a laboratory and given no further description in the judgments.
including clandestine laboratories located at Cashel St, Main South Road, Maunsell Street and 7 Gregory Avenue.
R v McKenzie [2013] NZHC 3351 [4]
Sentence No occupant, find or sentence is recorded for this address.
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Southey Street
Manufacture items
Smith's home address: the items were there, the scale was not proved.
Various items associated with the manufacture of methamphetamine were located at Southey Street.
R v Smith [2012] NZHC 3003 [4]
I will attach to my sentencing notes the description of items found at the respective addresses provided by experts for the police.
R v Smith [2012] NZHC 3003 [5]
the evidence about the scale of the activity was sparse and the Crown accepts that it cannot substantiate the quantity
R v Smith [2012] NZHC 3003 [6]
On the record Matthew Leslie Smith
Sentence Smith: 3y 7m on manufacture, 3y 10m effective.
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Miles' premises, Lyttelton
Laboratory
The address the Court of Appeal described step by step: what was in the jar, what was in the bottle.
Mr Miles lived in Lyttleton. On 9 June 2010 the police executed a search warrant.
McKenzie v R [2013] NZCA 378 [53]
Ms Mayo, a forensic scientist, gave evidence about her inspection of the property and her analysis of the items seized at that property. She said that methamphetamine had been manufactured at the property and that there was a range of chemicals and equipment found at the property sufficient to manufacture methamphetamine.
McKenzie v R [2013] NZCA 378 [54]
Ms Mayo detailed each step in the process of manufacture of methamphetamine and identified chemicals at Mr Miles’ address that could be used to undertake each particular step.
McKenzie v R [2013] NZCA 378 [54]
She found at Mr Miles’ house a jar with a two layered liquid consistent with the methamphetamine extraction process. A bottle was found which contained a caustic liquid containing methamphetamine.
McKenzie v R [2013] NZCA 378 [55]
On the record Darryl Miles
Sentence Miles: 5y on manufacture, 5y 5m effective.
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Hickory Place
Not a laboratory
Not a laboratory: the address that produced the firearms charges.
On the counts relating to possession of a pistol and firearm found at Hickory Place, it is submitted by the Crown that a cumulative sentence in the vicinity of six months imprisonment is appropriate.
R v Smith [2012] NZHC 3003 [11]
(c) On the charges of unlawful possession of a firearm, explosives and unlawful possession of a pistol, you are sentenced to three months imprisonment on each of them (to be served concurrently as between them) but to be served cumulatively in relation to the lead term of imprisonment.
R v Smith [2012] NZHC 3003 [24]
On the record Matthew Leslie Smith
Sentence Smith: 3 months on each firearms charge, cumulative on the lead term.