A St Georges Basin man charged as part of State Crime Command’s Criminal Groups Squad investigations into outlaw motorcycle gangs in the Shoalhaven has escaped a full-time jail sentence.
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Dion Anthony Holden, 25, was one of three people charged by police in an operation in the Shoalhaven in February.
In Nowra Local Court, Holden, who was charged with two counts of possessing an unauthorised firearm, possessing ammunition without holding a licence, possessing or using a prohibited weapon without a permit, cultivating a prohibited plant, and two counts of possessing a prohibited drug, escaped a jail term instead, placed on an intensive corrections order in the community for nine months.
He will have to perform at least 32 hours of community service.
Magistrate Gabriel Fleming also fined him $500 on the possessing ammunition charge.
Court papers said officers found a .22 calibre and a .77 calibre rifle at his Holden’s home during the operation on February 14.
Officers also found 12 cannabis plants, one gram of cannabis and one gram of methylamphetamines, commonly known as ice.