Man with drugs, weapons, cash and stolen car faces court

GEELONG police say they caught a Melbourne man with weapons, drugs, a stolen car and more than $5000 cash on him near the Thomson Football Club early yesterday.

However, Badeih Khadr, of Elwood, has told a court the items weren’t his and the money was won on the pokies.

Police arrested Khadr about 2.45am yesterday after noticing two cars parked at the rear of the football club rooms.

Khadr applied for bail that afternoon, where the court heard the three women with him at the time had not been arrested.

Among the items the court heard were seized were the allegedly stolen Mazda, a 0.177 calibre compressed gas air pistol and metal pellets, the $5030 cash, a set of knuckledusters, sets of keys, a bottle of a liquid believed to be the drug GHB and quantities of a substance alleged to be the drug ice.

Police prosecutor Senior Constable Chris Capuano said the pistol was found in a backpack “loaded, cocked and charged with gas”.

He said the applicant was on bail at the time he was arrested.

Khadr, 37, faces a series of charges, including theft of a motor vehicle, trafficking methylamphetamine, weapons and firearms charges, and possession of stolen goods and the proceeds of crime.

Sen-Constable Capuano said police expected to add more charges as they identified the property seized.

Khadr conducted his own bail application. “The money I did have on me I did win on the pokies and whatnot,” he said.

But magistrate Ann McGarvie disagreed with his assessment that the police case against him was weak. She remanded him in custody to reappear in court on August 16.