One of two charged with P for supply found guilty

One person has been found guilty on drug charges in Northland.

A jury has convicted one of two Northlanders with possession of methamphetamine for supply after the drug was found at a rural property they occupied.

Keith John Mills, 29, and Lateisha Ann Jeeves, 23, were on trial in the Whangarei District Court last week before a jury of eight men and four women.

Both were jointly charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a pistol, and possession of methamphetamine for supply before the resumption of their trial.

Jeeves pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful possession of a firearm, a .22 calibre ruger semi-automatic rifle, before the trial started on Monday last week and she was acquitted on Friday on the other firearms' charge due to insufficient evidence.

Mills on Friday pleaded guilty to one charge of unlawful possession of a pistol.

The charges related to a police raid on a property on Roberts' West Rd, Arapohue, about 16km southeast of Dargaville, occupied by Mills and Jeeves on January 29, 2014, and the seizure of nearly 30g of methamphetamine, $12,000 cash and firearms.

Both denied knowledge of the drug and Mills said the methamphetamine, found in a container sandwiched between a mattress and base of a bed in a bedroom, belonged to an Auckland-based friend who visited him.

The jury retired at 10.25am on Friday and returned at 4.30pm with guilty verdicts for Mills on both charges but found Jeeves not guilty on the drugs' charge.

Mills has been remanded in custody for sentencing on October 13.