QLD 536 David Andrew Gardiner Bailed

29 July 2013

The man at the centre of a love triangle responsible for the discovery of $2 million of suspected stolen property has been given bail on condition he live with his estranged wife.

David Andrew Gardiner looked at his wife of three years, Bianca Rinaudo, as he fronted the Brisbane Magistrates Court for a third time in four days on Monday – this time on drug production and trafficking charges.

Gardiner, 35, was first before court on Friday after being arrested when millions of dollars in property was found in his rented sheds, on Brisbane’s southside, so over-laden with valuables it has been dubbed ”an Aladdin’s Cave”.

While Gardiner attempted to communicate with Ms Rinaudo from the glass-enclosed dock of Magistrates Court No. 3, she sat quietly in the public gallery with an as yet unidentified man.

Gardiner was not required to enter a plea to 13 new charges, including trafficking, producing, supplying and possessing dangerous drugs, possessing explosives, illegal weapons and documents that instruct on how to produce dangerous drugs.

Police did request Gardiner be refused bail, saying the fact that his tally of serious offences had climbed to 35 and that he was a risk of committing further offences.

However, Magistate Chris Callagahan rejected the application, saying nothing had changed in circumstances since Gardiner was granted bail by another magistrate at the weekend.

Solicitor Lyle Parker, for Gardiner, said his client did want to alter his bail address so that he could live with Ms Rinaudo.

Ms Rinaudo, when approached by police prosecutors, said she was happy to not only provide Gardiner with a home, but also provide for him financially.

Gardiner’s co-accused and the so-called third link in the love triangle – Brodie Lea Swan – has also been charged with a swag drug offences.

Swan, 22, has fronted court and will reappear on the same charge.

Property unearthed by police inside Gardiner’s sheds included up to 40 motorbikes, cars, electrical goods and jewellery worth in excess of $1 million.

Gardiner, a custom car builder, operated a second-hand goods business from several rented properties on Musgrave Rd at Coopers Plains.

Ms Rinaudo, who is understood to be trying to save her marriage after the pair split earlier this year, sat inside the court wrapped in a leopard print scarf that she used to disguise her husband’s head when he was released on bail on Saturday.

Ms Rinaudo, a model and business owner, said Gardiner could reside at her residence at Sherwood, in Brisbane’s west.

Both have been remanded to appear on 16 August 2013.

QLD 530 Lana Watmough Sentence Manifestly Inadequate

14 Oct 2014

The Queensland Attorney-General has appealed against the ”manifestly inadequate” sentence given to a woman who assaulted a vision-impaired pensioner on a Gold Coast bus.

Lana Janet Watmough, 21, walked free from Southport Magistrates Court after she assaulted and racially vilified the 77-year-old man while they were riding on the bus in Kirra.

She and a friend sparked national outrage in February when a video of the attack was posted online.

It showed Watmough kicking and spitting at Paul Buttigieg as he rode a bus home from his daily bowls club outing in February.

Watmough was sentenced to two months jail, wholly suspended, and 12 months probation in the Southport Magistrates Court.

QLD 527 Lana Watmough Pleaded Guilty To Assault

17 Sep 2014

A woman who assaulted an elderly man on a Gold Coast bus has been given a two-month suspended jail sentence.

Lana Watmough, 21, pleaded guilty to assaulting the 77-year-old visually impaired man in February.

Southport Magistrates Court was shown video of the incident filmed by a fellow passenger.

It showed Watmough and a 17-year-old girl yelling abuse, punching and kicking the man.

Magistrate Gary Finger described the violence as unprovoked and absolutely deplorable.

He sentenced Watmough to two months in jail, suspended for 18 months.

She was also sentenced to 12 months’ probation for public nuisance.

Co-accused Lani Cameron remains in police custody and is due to be sentenced at a later date.

QLD 523 Mitchell Watmough Defends Lana With Bullshit

As all good brothers do, Mitchell Watmough defends his sister Lana Watmough, and bleats to the media the following.

04 March 2014

The brother of one of the two girls accused of assaulting an elderly man on a Gold Coast bus has launched an attack on the victim, saying he is well known for his behaviour.

Mitchell Watmough took to Facebook to defend his sister Larna, 21, after she and friend Layni Cameron, 17, were charged with assaulting disabled pensioner Paul Buttigieg.

Mr Watmough claimed Mr Buttigieg started the melee when he called the girls ”sluts and whores”, spat on them and kicked his sister in the face.

The pensioner has denied the claims, saying he only told them to stop swearing.

Mr Watmough said the girls were being falsely portrayed as ”terrible villains” and his sister was a ”huge victim”.

The Surfers Paradise man likened the furious social media backlash against them to the cyber-bullying of Charlotte Dawson.

”Larna isn’t a racial person, completely far from it; Larna’s closest friends are all indigenous with one of her indigenous friends spending last Christmas with our family,” he wrote in the post.

”Larna never said a racial thing with the other girl saying ‘we are in abo land’.”

”This man ‘labeled by the media as innocent’ is known to police and local residence all around the area for being extremely abusive, degrading to women by spitting at them, completely sexist and known to be harassing people on a weekly basis.”

”He has spat at mothers with children’s and abused women in shopping centers.”

”The video doesn’t show Larna try to pull the other girl off and stop it at the start, while Lana tried to help she dropped her phone on the ground tried to pick it up and the man kicked her in the face which she has an injuries to her head from which then she reacted to.”

”I am not on here to defend the actions after that as they are completely unacceptable and Larna is completely remorseful now.”

”My first sight of the video I was also disgusted and embarrassed, but after learning the video has been edited to make only the girls look like terrible villains I now see what the media has done to create a massive story.”

He called on people on social media to let the legal case take its course.

”I want to thank all my friends that have been supportive and never jumped on the bandwagon with the circus before knowing both sides.”

Unfortunately Mitchell Watmough wasn’t alone on ‘facebook’ in his bleating, another relative, Aaron Watmough also peddled similar nonsense against the victim in their attempts to defend Lana Watmough.

So far, Mitchell Watmough’s claims ‘against’ the victim appear to be little more than bullshit, that wouldn’t pass muster for courtroom evidence.

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QLD 505 Bus Assault With Lana Watmough

1 March 2014

Kirra bus bashing accused Larna Watmough (photo) and Layni Cameron sob and beg to not be sent to the watch-house.

The two young women accused of a racist attack on an elderly blind man on a Gold Coast bus have received death threats, their lawyer says.

One has been freed on bail but her co-accused will remain behind bars and was led back to the cells sobbing.

Larna Watmough, 21, and Layni Cameron, 17, faced Southport Magistrates Court this morning charged with serious assault and public nuisance.

(Correction, Lana Janet Watmough.)

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493 Steve Robert Drobny

25 July 2013

Two 19-year-old men accused of assaulting a taxi driver and evading a fare earlier this month will reappear in the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court in September.

Nathan Edward Tulungi Levy and Steve Robert Drobny (photo) appeared before Magistrate Graeme Tatnell briefly today.

490 Nathan Edward Tulungi Levy

23 January 2014

Two men who viciously assaulted an elderly taxi driver have walked free from court.

Steve Robert Drobny and Nathan Edward Tulungi Levy (photo) pleaded guilty in the Hervey Bay District Court on Wednesday.

Drobny was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and Levy with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm against the 64-year-old driver.

QLD Hervey Bay

Hervey Bay Queensland, is a town

292 KM North of Brisbane.

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Postcode is 4655.

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QLD Maryborough

Maryborough Queensland, is a town

256 KM North of Brisbane.

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Postcode is 4650.

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QLD 466 Walking Straight With Damien Duncan Hooper

2 May 2014

Sitting on the court bench with Magistrate Damian Carroll was respected Indigenous Elder Darby McCarthy, a sporting champion of the past himself.

Uncle Darby told Hooper (photo) that he was a role model to younger members of his community and had to act accordingly.

”Walk straight if you want to be a role model for our people,” he warned.

QLD 464 Taxi Time With Damien Duncan Hooper

17 March 2014

Former Olympic boxer Damien Duncan Hooper (photo) has pleaded guilty to the assault of a Toowoomba taxi driver.

Hooper, 22, appeared briefly before Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday to plead guilty to the reduced charge of common assault as well as to obstructing police and public nuisance offences arising from an altercation with the cab driver on the night of 14-December-2013.

QLD Jondaryan

Jondaryan Queensland, is a town

140 KM West of Brisbane.

Postcode is 4403.

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QLD Dalby

Dalby Queensland, is a town

210 KM West of Brisbane.

Postcode is 4405.

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QLD 456 Golf With Beau Leonard Gillis

21 April 2011

Teenager Beau Leonard Gillis (photo) was on the grog and a little under par when he broke into a Toowoomba golf shop and stole almost $5000 worth of golf clubs and balls.

Gillis pleaded guilty to theft as well as to stealing a personalised number plate three days later from a car parked at Grand Central Shopping Centre which was found in his room.

QLD 454 Drying Out With Beau Leonard Gillis

8 May 2014

Drunken street fights will have to be a thing of the past for Beau Leonard Gillis (photo) if he is to remain out of jail.

Gillis had a history of public nuisance offences before pleading guilty in Toowoomba Magistrates Court to another three such incidents.

QLD Toowoomba

Toowoomba Queensland, is a town

127 km west of Brisbane city.

Postcode is 4350.

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QLD 446 Ivan Tesic Charged With Drug Trafficking

19 April 2014

Ivan Tesic (photo) was arrested at Sydney Airport earlier this month as police closed Operation Kilo Fraction, the Glitter Strip’s biggest ever drug trafficking investigation.

The alleged Hells Angel bikie associate has been charged with drug trafficking under Queensland’s new Vicious Lawless Disestablishment Act anti-gang laws and faces up to 25 years extra jail time if convicted.

QLD Southport

Southport Queensland, is the suburb of

The Gold Coast ‘city’ which also

contains the Central Business District.

Postcode is 4215.

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NSW QLD 411 Layni Gloria Cameron

14 February 2014

Layni Gloria Cameron, 17, (photo) stayed just one night at the Meriton Apartments in Broadbeach but soon found herself spending a less comfortable night in the Southport Watchhouse.

The Chinderah teenager faced the Southport Magistrates Court yesterday charged with armed robbery and stealing.

She will return to court on 02 April 2014.

Cameron is from NSW, Robbery was in QLD.

QLD Coolangatta

Coolangatta Queensland, is the most southern suburb of The Gold Coast, and is on the NSW and QLD border, and on the Tweed River.

Postcode is 4225.

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QLD Keating 386 Finks Fun With Undies

21 April 2009

WHEN NSW Police made Finks bikie leader Gregory Keating (photo) drop his undies, the bulge beneath his Calvin Klein’s revealed more than a neat packed lunch – his hidden stash of methylamphetamine.

Keating, from the Gold Coast, pleaded guilty in Lismore District Court to the supply of the prohibited drug after being caught near Tumbulgum on July 12, 2007, with 18.34 grams of methylamphetamine in two sandwich bags.

QLD Fink 382 Gregory Keating

01 September 2009

Finks bikie gang sergeant-at-arms Gregory Keating (photo) today pleaded guilty to refusing to give evidence before an Australian Crime Commission hearing in Brisbane last year.

But Southport District Court was told convicted drug dealer Keating, 30, refused to answer questions about illicit drug activity, or even confirm he was the Finks sergeant-at-arms.

QLD Gympie

Gympie Queensland, is a town

160 KM North of Brisbane along the Mary River.

Postcode is 4570.

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QLD The Gold Coast

The Gold Coast Queensland, is a town

94 KM South of Brisbane along the Pacific Coast.

Postcode is 4217.

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QLD 330 Brodie Lea Swan

His co-accused, Brodie Lea Swan (photo) fronted court on identical charges.

27 July 2013

David Gardiner, 35, a custom car builder, operated a second-hand goods business from several rented storage sheds on Musgrave Rd in Coopers Plains.

the discovery of $2 million worth of suspected stolen goods during a police raid on his rented sheds on Brisbane’s southside.

The goods include up to 30 cars and motorbikes, electrical goods and an estimated $1 million in jewellery, they suspect are the proceeds of crime.

after fronting the Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday in relation to nine counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and receiving tainted property.

His co-accused, bikini model and younger blonde lover Brodie Lea Swan, 22, fronted court on identical charges.

Both Gardiner and Swan are due to front court again next month.

QLD 328 David Gardiner

David Gardiner, 35, (photo) a custom car builder, operated a second-hand goods business from several rented storage sheds on Musgrave Rd in Coopers Plains.

27 July 2013

the discovery of $2 million worth of suspected stolen goods during a police raid on his rented sheds on Brisbane’s southside.

The goods include up to 30 cars and motorbikes, electrical goods and an estimated $1 million in jewellery, they suspect are the proceeds of crime.

after fronting the Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday in relation to nine counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and receiving tainted property.

His co-accused, bikini model and younger blonde lover Brodie Lea Swan, 22, fronted court on identical charges.

Both Gardiner and Swan are due to front court again next month.

QLD Coopers Plains

Coopers Plains Queensland, is a suburb

11 KM south-west of Brisbane city.

Postcode is 4108

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