TALENTED Wagga Tigers midfielder Jim Carroll has been charged by police with supplying a prohibited drug after he was allegedly caught with 10 ecstasy tablets.
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The 20-year-old also faces a backup charge of possessing a prohibited drug.
Carroll appeared in Wagga Local Court on Wednesday for a first mention of the charges.
He was not required to enter a plea.
The drug supply charge is strictly indictable, which means that if it proceeds in its current form it will be finalised in the District Court.
On Wednesday, Carroll’s solicitor, Zac Tankard, asked for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to provide a brief of evidence by August 10 to allow him to reply to the brief on the next court date – August 24.
Carroll was arrested about 7.40pm on May 7 and granted police bail ahead of his court appearance.
No details of the police allegations against Carroll have been handed up to the court at this time.
Carroll made his senior grade debut with the Tigers as a 15-year-old.
He returned to the club this year after playing for Eastern Football League division one club Blackburn in 2015.
Carroll spent 2014 with Albury Tigers, playing in the club’s reserve grade premiership-winning side while also playing representative football for NSW-ACT Rams and Murray Bushrangers.
Carroll has been named on the bench for Saturday’s game against Collingullie-Glenfield Park.
In other court news, a man who broke into a Mount Austin house with two others has been ordered to undertake courses to help him live a “pro-social and productive life”.
The courses will be part of 19-year-old Jarrod Oates’s parole imposed by Judge Jennifer English in Wagga District Court.
Judge English imposed a six months’ non-parole jail sentence on Oates, but backdated it to December 13 when he was locked up, meaning Oates has served his prison time while on remand.
Oates and two others broke into a Nilma Street house by prising open a window with a screwdriver.
Personal property they stole included Xbox games and console and two laptop computers.
A neighbour saw Oates and his co-offenders acting suspiciously before the break-in and contacted police who confronted the trio with their loot after they left the house. Oates will be on parole until June 12 next year.
