Nelson man Dane Erickson Goette during sentencing in the Nelson District Court. His lawyer Rob Harrison said he accepted he was \u201csomewhat reckless\u201d for using his own name to sell stolen goods online. Photo \/ Tracy Neal<\/p>\n
Awoman, who has interim name suppression, was also sentenced today and received six months\u2019 home detention for drug charges she alone committed, plus allowing premises to be used to commit drug offences.<\/p>\n
She was also sentenced on representative charges of dealing methamphetamine, amphetamine and cannabis.<\/a><\/p>\n Police said she was \u201cobviously aware\u201d of the drug-related activity taking place, which she was an active part, but did nothing to stop it.<\/p>\n In seeking a lesser penalty, the woman\u2019s lawyer Emma Riddell said she was facing a further significant penalty of having assets seized after police filed proceedings against her.<\/p>\n Addiction behind offending <\/p>\n The court heard Goette\u2019s addiction was the driving force behind his offending, while the woman, who received home detention, had been largely caught up in Goette\u2019s lifestyle.<\/p>\n Submissions from his lawyer, Rob Harrison, indicated a preference for home detention so he might better address his addiction.<\/p>\n Judge Mark Callaghan said in sentencing Goette to three years in prison, that while he accepted he had taken steps to address his problems, it was clear he was still using drugs when he was arrested on a bail breach late last year and found to have in his system a mixture of \u201ccough medicine and cannabis\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re considered to be a supplier to support your habit but it seems to be more than that,\u201d Judge Callaghan said.<\/p>\n He said the firearms and ammunition also found in Goette\u2019s possession indicated he was dealing drugs.<\/p>\n The charges on which he was sentenced included possession of a firearm and ammunition without a firearm licence.<\/p>\n Goette once offered to deliver a small amount of meth to a customer, or meet them at a Nelson<\/a> primary school to complete the deal, the police summary of facts said.<\/p>\n On several occasions, Goette said he was also happy to accept property, usually tools, in exchange for methamphetamine.<\/p>\n Burglaries \u2018strikingly similar\u2019<\/p>\n In March, April and May 2025, police were investigating a number of \u201cstrikingly similar\u201d burglaries and thefts<\/a> from vehicles in the Richmond and Stoke areas.<\/p>\n They appeared to have been committed by the same person, police said.<\/p>\n On the morning of May 3 last year, a vehicle parked in a driveway in the Nelson suburb of Stoke was broken into, and tools worth $5000 taken, including a nail gun, a case containing 10 Milwaukee brand batteries and a titanium hammer.<\/p>\n Soon after it was reported, police became aware<\/a> that three of the batteries reported stolen were being offered for sale on Facebook marketplace by a seller with the username \u201cDane Goette\u201d.<\/p>\n Harrison said he accepted he was \u201csomewhat reckless\u201d in that regard.<\/p>\n The man from whose vehicle the items were taken arranged to buy them from Goette, and later identified them as being his stolen batteries by the distinctive markings he had made on them.<\/p>\n Later that month, police searched Goette\u2019s address and found the $600 titanium hammer in the garage, but nothing else was recovered. <\/p>\n Drugs and weapons found during search for items reported stolen<\/p>\n However, police found other items of interest, including drugs and weapons and a 12-gauge single-barrelled shotgun that had five cartridges fitted to a sleeve attached to the butt of the shotgun.<\/p>\n They also found a second single-barrelled shotgun, 13 shotgun cartridges and 26 .410 calibre cartridges. <\/p>\n During the search, police also found almost 600g of dried cannabis<\/a> in several plastic bags and a number of plastic containers.<\/p>\n More cannabis stalks and leaf material were found throughout the house, with scales and empty plastic snap-lock bags.<\/p>\n Various items of drug paraphernalia and 10.6g of psilocybin, a Class A drug known as magic mushrooms, were found in a desk in the main living area of the house.<\/p>\n A further 153g of wet psilocybin was found in a plastic snap-lock bag in the kitchen.<\/p>\n As the property search continued, police found tools and other items that fitted the description of items reported stolen in the spate of burglaries and thefts from vehicles, and which led to the receiving charges against Goette.<\/p>\n The items included cameras and lenses worth thousands of dollars, reported stolen from vehicles parked in driveways in Richmond.<\/a><\/p>\n One of the cameras found at Goette\u2019s address included images he had taken.<\/p>\n Police then found a plastic bin containing work tools and stock taken from a trades van parked on Richmond\u2019s main street, including internet routers, hard drives, power boards, converters, electronic adaptors, cables and a socket set. <\/p>\n A vehicle belonging to an apprentice builder, which, parked in a Richmond driveway, was cleaned out of work tools and equipment, some of which were found at Goette\u2019s address.<\/p>\n Throughout this time, Goette was offering to sell cannabis to various people and organise delivery drops via Facebook Messenger<\/a>.<\/p>\n The drug dealing was uncovered when Goette\u2019s cell phone was seized during the police inquiry, but it was not clear how much cannabis was sold, police said.<\/p>\n Meth supplied on Nelson street corner<\/p>\n Twice in early April last year Goette messaged a person on their cell phone and offered to supply a \u201cq\u201d (a quarter ounce\/7g) of methamphetamine, then arranged to meet on the street corner of an upmarket, central Nelson neighbourhood.<\/p>\n Police said Goette was also in regular contact with a person using a different cell phone number, to whom he offered to sell meth on nine separate occasions.<\/p>\n The search of a storage unit rented by Goette in Richmond last May uncovered multiple rounds of different gauge ammunition.<\/p>\nThe class A drug psilocybin, known as magic mushrooms, was found in a desk in the main living area of the house. The mushrooms grow in the wild in New Zealand on wood debris, woodchips and grass.<\/p>\n