A Newstead man overtook a police car at 122km/h while under the influence of drugs at the height of a six-month spree of offending, the Launceston Magistrates Court heard.
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Michael James Walford pleaded guilty to a total of 41 counts including drug possession, driving, firearm and breaching bail offences.
Police prosecutor Ashlee Goss said police had been on patrol on the West Tamar Highway in December 2018 when they were overtaken by a gold Holden Commodore travelling at 122km/h according to a radar device.
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Police used a sniffer dog and found a stash box containing ice and cannabis in the console.
An unlicensed driver since July 2018 Walford tested positive to methylamphetamine and amphetamine.
In March 2019, police spotted a Commodore with a missing back window and intercepted and found Walford positive to drugs.
A fortnight later Walford used a stolen bankcard to buy more than $200 worth of items including a deer hunting knife, mobile phone and utility knife in three separate transactions.
He was caught by police after a transaction was declined and his car searched to find ice and a glass smoking pipe.
In June 2019, he climbed into a unit in Hadspen and when apprehended later at Longford police found a .410 shotgun and shotgun cartridges and an ice pipe.
A week later he was intercepted again and tested positive for methylamphetamine.
He was bailed to attend court on July 8, 2019 but failed to appear.
Ms Goss applied for the destruction of five ice pipes seized from Walford.
Defence counsel James Oxley said Walford had travelled to Queensland for six months and worked in the mining industry.
Walford returned to Tasmania in January, 2020 and handed himself in to police.
He said Walford was locked in a drug habit costing him several hundred dollars a day.
Mr Oxley made application for Walford to be subject to a drug treatment order as an alternative to an actual jail sentence.
"The matters are all linked to a methyamphetamine addiction he had between December 2018 and June 2019," he said.
Magistrate Sharon Cure ordered an assessment for a drug treatment order and adjourned the matter until June 26 at 11.30.