Accused Dubbo drug syndicate ringleader Graham John Wiseman allegedly tried to arrange the murder of a local detective after his arrest last year.
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He also approached two people in relation to having a witness murdered, according to charge sheets presented to Bathurst Local Court yesterday.
Last Thursday Dubbo detectives travelled to Bathurst Goal, where Mr Wiseman is on remand, and charged him with two counts of soliciting a murder.
He is alleged to have approached two men, soliciting both to murder a witness involved in drug matters against him.
He also solicited one man to murder a local plain-clothes detective.
One of the men Mr Wiseman approached was an undercover police operative, according to the charge sheets.
Although no further details of the alleged offences were presented to the court yesterday, the charge sheets stated the incidents occurred between May 3 last year and February 7 this year.
Mr Wiseman, 45, has been in custody since May 3, when he was one of 12 people arrested during a series of simultaneous dawn raids on premises throughout Dubbo and Taree.
When he appeared in Dubbo Local Court late on the afternoon of May 3, Magistrate David Heilpern was told that Mr Wiseman was the "ringleader" of a cannabis-peddling organisation which supplied the Dubbo, Kempsey, Taree and Port Macquarie areas, and generated $100,000 every week.
The drug charges are now before Central Local Court in Sydney, and none of the defendants have entered pleas.
When Mr Wiseman appeared in Bathurst Local Court yesterday to face the solicit a murder charges, his defence counsel Rayner Pettet requested that the brief of evidence against her client, including tape recordings, be served on a Sydney-based law firm.
Ms Pettet also asked for the matter to be adjourned to April 29 when drugs charges against Mr Wiseman are listed.
However Bathurst-based Director of Public Prosecutions solicitor Lyn Broad argued the matter should not be transferred to Sydney because all the witness were from the local area.
Magistrate Darryl Pearce refused to transfer the matter and ordered that the brief of evidence be served on Mr Wiseman personally.
He adjourned the matter until March 4.
