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New Zealand: Drug dealer gets home detention Jessica Sutton Wanawatu Standard Thursday 09 Aug 2012 That's his legal employment - not the pot operation he was running from his Palmerston North bedroom. Daniel Peter Spalding, 36, was sentenced by Justice Forrest Miller in the High Court at Palmerston North yesterday to nine months' home detention and 200 hours' community service on a charge of possessing cannabis for supply. He pleaded earlier this year to the charge. Police went to Spalding's property on Tremaine Ave in Palmerston North on March 1. They scoured Spalding's bedroom - which he shared with his partner - where they found 135 grams of cannabis in six zip-lock bags, two cellphones, a "tick book", electronic scales and $490 in cash. Four of the zip-lock bags found contained 26 to 28g of cannabis. Each would have a street value of between $200 and $500. Also found in the room was a cloth bag containing 15 small zip-lock bags with about 1g of cannabis in each. Police also seized drug paraphernalia including cannabis bongs, a pipe and a cannabis grinder. Spalding admitted the drugs were his and he was selling it to others. Justice Miller said a sentence of home detention would mean Spalding could retain his job. "Although you were dealing, it was a small amount," he said. "[If sent to prison] you will lose your employment, what your family depends on." The maximum sentence was eight years' imprisonment. http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/7445981/Drug-dealer-gets-home-detention
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