Sylvania Waters local James Mina pleaded guilty to prohibited drug supply and drug possession after a police raid uncovered large amounts of cocaine in his room at his family’s mansion on February 13.

Coming from a Greek and Egyptian background, the Sydney boy was arrested in his Toyota HiLux in the Southgate Sylvania carpark on February 14 and spent six days behind bars.

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“Investigators located six plastic bags of white powder suspected to be cocaine, five plastic bags of brown granules suspected to be MDMA, empty plastic bags, scales, spoons, scissors, and Glucodin commonly used as a cutting agent for cocaine,” police facts stated.

“They also located in the accused’s bedroom numerous other plastic bags containing unknown substances, an extendible baton, $2300 in a Louis Vuitton box, 105 Oxandrolone tablets and a box containing a variety of steroids.”

The raid ultimately uncovered 20.48g of cocaine, 4.32g of MDMA, 10.53g of anabolic steroid Oxandrolone, 1.68g of anabolic steroid Mesterolone, 0.78g of dexamphetamine and 21.7g of testosterone.

Mina spent six days behind bars before he was granted bail by Magistrate Les Mabbutt at Sutherland Local Court. His parents, sister and a family friend collectively put a $1.2 million investment property and $15,000 cash on the line in exchange for his release on bail.

Mina was set to fight the charges at a hearing but instead pleaded guilty to prohibited drug supply and prohibited drug possession.

The court will also consider seven other counts of prohibited drug possession as part of the sentencing proceedings at Sutherland Local Court on September 17.

Mina is employed full time as a trainer at Fitness First but he also works as a party promoter with his own company – MisdeMina.

A Melbourne woman will miss her father’s funeral in Adelaide on Wednesday after repeatedly being rejected to travel.

Mary Kalantzis’ father Michael Katsabas died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital last week after a long illness. Trying desperately to obtain compassionate leave from SA health authorities to travel there, she was repeatedly rejected.

Speaking to The Advertiser, Mary says her request has now been approved a week after her father passed, yet the Greek Australian woman felt it was too late to say goodbye to her father.

“It’s been a week now since my father passed away. He’s sitting in a morgue, and yesterday I got a letter from SA Health stating if I want to come, I have to go to a hotel and stay for 14 days and quarantine,” she said.

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“Would you allow your father to stay in a morgue for three weeks?

“I just couldn’t do it to my mother.”

Ms Kalantzis, who is originally from South Australia and runs a business there, said if she was approved for travel when her father took a turn for the worst, she could have flown there and undertaken the mandatory 14-day quarantine.

“I begged them and begged them,” she said.

“I asked them for a compassionate letter because they said to me he wasn’t looking good.

“The doctors wouldn’t get back to me, I kept repeatedly calling.

“Eventually, that afternoon he sadly passed away.

“If they said yes to me on that Tuesday, I would’ve quarantined for two weeks from Tuesday and my dad would only be in the morgue for two weeks.”

She has written to the SA Health Minister, Premier and Prime Minister to help her plight. She is pinning hopes on a flight on Wednesday afternoon that will enable her to attend the service alongside her mother and two sisters.

Exemptions for funeral travel are considered on a case-by-case basis in “very exceptional circumstances”. If approved, 14 days quarantine is required on arrival before attending the funeral.

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James Delinicolis is one of two accused police officers who received bail in Central Local Court on Tuesday after being charged with the sexual assault of a teenage girl in a hotel room.

NSW Police Transport Command Senior Constables James Delinicolis, 29, and Angelo Dellosa, 30, have spent three weeks behind bars after being charged with multiple offences including attempted aggravated sexual assault in March.

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The court was told Delinicolis first met the schoolgirl when he was on duty and she was in her school uniform at a bus stop before they met again at the Ramada Hotel in Cabramatta.

Crown prosecutor Sally Stuart told the court Delinicolis met the schoolgirl while on duty at a bus stop, again meeting her at the the Ramada Hotel in Cabramatta, The Daily Telegraph reports. The man allegedly attempted to have non-consensual anal sex with the girl while Dellosa pinned her down in the room.

“She made it extremely clear and said no several times and was held down against her will by the co-accused (Dellosa),” Ms Stuart said.

“Her lack of consent was made very clear.”

Delinicolis’ defence lawyer Phillip Strickland SC said his client and Dellosa had consensual sex with the girl in the hotel room.

“At the hotel when the intercourse occurred there were sexual acts done consensually before the alleged offence and after the alleged offence,” he said.

“A jury will be instructed to look at the entire episode at the hotel.

“She’s agreed to have consensual sex with both of them at the time – after she claims it was non-consensual.”

Magistrate Margaret Quinn granted bail for both the officers, however warned a full-time prison sentence was likely if they were convicted of the charges.

In granting Delinicolis bail, Ms Quinn said: “I can’t say that’s a weak case at all, it may well come under challenge to consent issues, but I can’t say it’s a weak case.”

Delinicolis must forfeit $500,000 in surety and Dellosa must forfeit $20,000 before they can walk free from Silverwater jail where they have been held on remand.