Former cricketer changes plea on drug charge
Former Cup Match cricketer Treadwell Gibbons entered a guilty plea to possessing cannabis in Magistrates’ Court yesterday, but after hearing the explanation, the plea was reversed.The court heard that he was arrested near the Mid Atlantic Boat Club on January 21 during a stop and search operation by police. Crown counsel Maria Sofianos said the officers found 4.21 grams of cannabis in the left pocket of the defendant’s jeans.But Mr Gibbons told the court that the drugs were in the jacket which he borrowed along with the motorcycle he was riding at the time of the offence. “I don’t even smoke weed, and I was warned that the police were down the road, if I knew the weed was on me I would have turned around and went the other way,” he said.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told the defendant that if that was his position then his plea should be not guilty to the charge. The case was set down for June 8, Mr Gibbons was released on $2,000 bail with one surety.