Mark Rossiter, 27, had been found with an indictable amount of methylamphetamines (75.9 grams), and eight bottles of banned Sustanon 250, Testosterone Propionate when a seizure warrant was executed at Basset Drive, Bathurst about 8am on February 15.

Rossiter pleaded guilty to serious indictable offences that could have seen him committed and convicted on charges that carried jail sentences at the Bathurst Court House.

His charges, however, were before the Local Court where magistrate Jan Stevenson recorded convictions and fined Rossiter a total of $3500 ordering his large stashes of drugs to be destroyed.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Brett Donaghy tendered a police statement outlining how Rossiter a self-employed concreting tradesman co-operated with police and customs after they knocked on his door with the drugs seizure warrant.

The statement outlined how police found three bottles containing brown substance that Rossiter identified as “glue”, a prohibited drug purchased four months earlier in Sydney, claiming it had been for his own use.

The substances seized had been sent to the Division of Analytical Laboratories and identified as 75.9 grams of methylamphetamines.

Police involved in the search at Bassett Drive had also found a plastic container in an aluminium tool box containing eight bottles, each containing a millilitre of Sustanon 250, Testosterone Propionate.

According to Rossiter he used the banned drugs to improve his physical stamina while recovering from a knee injury. Rossiter did not have a prescription for the steroids.

Rossiter had not been a medical practitioner, a pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian accredited to have possession of the drugs, police told the court.

Solicitor Nick Boyden tendered a large number of references written by family and friends.

Rossiter’s partner had written to the court saying discovery of the cache of drugs had been “a life changing experience” for she and Rossiter.