Drug dealer's friend 'gave' him with ecstacy worth $120,000
A Queenstown drug dealer claims a friend who left New Zealand gave him ecstasy pills worth $120,000.
Keith Singleton, a 30-year-old labourer originally from Ireland, said he only started selling the pills when his partner was made redundant.
Police found 2431 pills when they searched his home on December 9, and charged him with possession of the class B drug ecstasy and possession of ecstasy for supply.
Judge Russell Walker sentenced him in the Queenstown District Court on Monday to 11 months and two weeks home detention and 200 hours of community work, on top of 240 hours already completed.
“You have come as close as you possibly can to a sizeable term of imprisonment without actually going to prison,” the judge said.
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