Olympian, rugby great's son on drugs charges

Thursday Apr 17 13:00 AEST
By ninemsn staff
with wires

The son of former Wallabies captain Ken Catchpole and an Olympian have been charged in relation to drugs offences after a raid on Sydney's northern beaches.

Police seized a commercial pill press, drugs, cash and a revolver from a storage facility in Brookvale at 11am yesterday. They also raided a home in Dee Why at 2pm yesterday, seizing capsicum spray and steroids.

Mark Catchpole, 40, will appear in Manly Local Court today, while the former Olympian, who cannot yet be named for legal reasons, has been released on bail and is due in the same court on May 7.




Police said the pill press was capable of producing up to 27,000 pills an hour and also found a professional tablet counter during the raid.

Both men were charged with possession of a tablet press.

Catchpole has also been charged with four counts of possessing a prohibited drug, firearms offences, possessing ammunition, possession of equipment to administer a prohibited drug, supplying a prohibited drug and dealing with proceeds of crime.

The 33-year-old Olympian has been charged with two counts of possessing a prescribed restricted substance and possessing an offensive weapon.