When police visited the house of a former State of Origin star’s son, a bag his girlfriend alerted them to that grew to become his undoing, courtroom paperwork reveal.
Joch Mclean is the son of Mike McLean, who starred for the Queensland State of Origin within the Eighties and ’90s and whose curly mullet earned him the nickname of “The Paddle Pop Lion”.
Agreed info tendered to Downing Centre District Court reveal police had been at Joch Mclean’s house in Sydney’s northern seashores on the morning of 18 November, 2021, for a matter unrelated to medicine.
But whereas they had been there, his girlfriend, Daniella Kovacevic, opened up a big, multi-coloured bag, which had Mclean’s ‘Buckaroo’ model bag inside.
“Ms Kovacevic saw that the ‘Buckaroo’ bag contained a loose white powdered substance, and she immediately drew this to the attention of police,” the info learn.
“Police seized the multi-coloured bag and contents, and later searched the ‘Buckaroo’ bag.”
Inside the bag, police discovered one yellow bowl holding white pasty-powder, two plastic containers containing white powder, a set of pink kitchen scales, a hairdryer and one 500g tub labelled “creatine monohydrate,” the info learn.
Mclean was arrested and agreed to participate in forensic checks however declined to be interviewed over the medicine.
Lab outcomes confirmed the white powder within the bowl and plastic containers collectively weighed 986.9g.
Mclean pleaded responsible to supplying a business quantity of medication.
He is because of be sentenced on March 17.
