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Police found a stun gun and a stick of commercial explosive, with a variety of 6cm and 11cm-long nails wrapped around it, inside a locked safe when they searched a Napier house during a drug bust, Hastings District Court was told today.
The search in November last year was part of Operation Nacre, an undercover police investigation into the supply and sale of drugs, including cannabis and methamphetamine, in Gisborne and Hawke's Bay.
Clayton Michael O'Brien, a 25-year-old labourer, of Napier, today admitted supplying methamphetamine, producing cannabis oil, possessing cannabis, illegal possession of a sawn-off shotgun, possessing a restricted weapon - a stun gun - and possessing an explosive device, namely a homemade bomb.
He was remanded in custody by Judge Bridget MacIntosh, for sentence on September 6.
Police told the court that O'Brien supplied an undercover policeman with a gram of methamphetamine in a point bag on October 20 for $900.
An associate of O'Brien's was given $40 for setting up the deal.
On November 16 police searched O'Brien's Napier home and found a double-barrelled, sawn-off shotgun hidden in a bag on top of a wardrobe in his bedroom and a cut-down .22 rifle.
They also found 343 grams of cannabis in a chilly bin in the garage, 750 grams of cannabis leaf in a bin, a sack containing cannabis stalks and a jar containing cannabis which was damp from solvent.
O'Brien denied making cannabis oil but a stainless steel bowl found in his wardrobe showed traces of the oil. Capsules of oil were later found in the wardrobe and in a fridge in the kitchen.
Police said a locked safe in the wardrobe was found to contain a stun gun. O'Brien said he had been given the weapon. Also in the safe was a small stick of explosive with a fuse protruding from one end. Nails had been wrapped around the stick to form a home-made bomb.
O'Brien told police the explosive device had been thrown on to his front lawn on Guy Fawkes night.
An ESR scientist who examined the bomb said it was in working condition.
- NZPA
