FORMER PANGURR CHIEF FINED

Ian Geoffrey Underwood was Pangurr community CEO when he committed a string of offences earlier this year. Photo courtesy The Australian.

GEOFF VIVIAN

A Western Desert community’s former CEO has been fined for the last of a series of offences he was charged with earlier this year.

South Hedland’s Magistrate dismissed a charge of endangering the life, health, or safety of a person when Ian Geoffrey Underwood appeared, 54, last Tuesday.

However he received a fine of $2,000 plus $130.50 court costs for several other offences he had already pleaded guilty to.

These included three counts of making a threat to do unlawfully do an act at Telfer, to which Underwood had pleaded guilty on February 15.

On July 6 he had also changed his plea to guilty, for failing to ensure the safe-keeping of a firearm and ammunition at Newman.

For several years Underwood had been CEO of Pangurr, a tiny Martu community near Telfer.