A Warrnambool man caught with drugs and a pair of homemade knuckle dusters has been ordered to do an extra 75 hours’ unpaid community work.
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Jacob Arndell, 26, of Tylden Street, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court to possessing ice, breaching a community corrections order and manufacturing and carrying a prohibited weapon.
Lawyer Xavier Farrelly said Arndell made the knuckle dusters himself and that he carried them around in order to polish them.
Ardnell was fined $1500 and his existing community corrections order was extended and varied to include more unpaid work.
On June 4 Arndell was a passenger in a black Holden Commodore that fled police on Warrnambool’s Wanstead Street about 4.30pm.
Police attempted to intercept the vehicle which sped off at 100km/h in a signed 60km/h zone.
The vehicle turned into Tozer Street and continued to travel at fast speed on the wrong side of the road, narrowly avoiding a head on collision with several cars.
Police said the vehicle was later found abandoned near Moore Street and Arndell and the driver were located walking on a nearby footpath.
Police attempted to arrest the pair but the co-accused fled the scene and Ardnell resisted, resulting in two officers having to restrain him.
A search located a pair of homemade knuckle dusters in Ardnell’s trousers and one gram of methyl amphetamine inside an envelope that was hidden in his underwear. He was arrested and conveyed to Warrnambool police station.
Police said the co-accused was arrested at a later date and charged with reckless conduct endangering life.