A MAN accused of swinging a puppy through the air to hit people at a Wagga pub has pleaded guilty to a raft of charges but disputes some of the alleged facts claimed by police.
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Darrin Michael Stephens, 48, of Ashmont, faced Wagga Local Court on Wednesday and was represented by solicitor Duc Vo.
“My client pleads guilty to all charges, but there is a minor dispute on the facts,” Mr Vo told magistrate Erin Kennedy.
Mr Vo did not expand on what is disputed.
He will make representations to police in an attempt to resolve the differences.
The case will return to court on March 29 when Stephens may be sentenced if agreed facts can be tendered to the magistrate.
Stephens has pleaded guilty to four offences: committing an act of animal cruelty, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and failing to leave a licensed premises after being excluded.
Police allege Stephens attacked two men after he was told to leave the Ashmont Inn hotel because he had become rowdy just after 6pm on December 19.
It is alleged he picked up a dog, described in the court attendance notice only as a puppy, and swung it around to hit people.
Police claim Stephens assaulted the publican and committed a more serious act of violence against another man, causing facial injuries.
Stephens was granted bail by police after being charged, with conditions including that he not go within 250 metres of the Ashmont Inn and not approach or contact his assault victims.
In other court news, a North Wagga man accused of having methamphetamine for supplying the drug has been committed to stand trial.
Gabriel John David George, 34, waived his right to a committal hearing in Wagga Local Court on Wednesday and instead opted to go straight to trial in the District Court.
He is charged with deemed supply of a prohibited drug.
Police allege they found 14.17 grams of methamphetamine in the house George was living in when they executed a search warrant at the property on the afternoon of June 23 last year.
Kooringal man Elwood Anthony Boney, also opted to have his case go straight to the District Court without a committal hearing.
Boney, 24, is charged with aggravated break and enter and commit serious indictable offence (larceny).
Police allege Boney and another person broke into a Stillman Avenue house between 9.50pm and 10.01pm on October 3 last year and robbed one of the occupants of a sum of money.
Both cases were adjourned to a telephone call over of District Court cases on March 15.
