A young mechanic caught up in Australia's crackdown on homegrown terrorism has walked out of court with a two-year good behaviour bond and a $500 fine.
Ahmad Azaddin Rahmany, 24, was charged with weapon and ammunition offences last week after his arrest in one of 25 pre-dawn raids across Sydney's western suburbs.
He was charged with unlicensed ammunition and prohibited weapon possession after police found a Taser and four bullets in his bedroom.
The charges had nothing to do with terrorism, his lawyer told Fairfield Local Court after Rahmany pleaded guilty to the charges.
In the bail conditions imposed after his arrest, Rahmany was banned from contacting a number of high-profile Islamic radicals, including Australian Islamic State member Mohammad Baryalei.
Rahmany was restricted from contacting Hamdi Alqudsi, who is accused of sending Australians to Syria to fight in the civil war, and Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai who was jailed for threatening to slit the throat of an ASIO officer.
Omarjan Azari, the 22-year-old arrested in last week's raids and accused of preparing a terror attack on Australian soil, was also named in the court documents.
A statement of facts reveals Sydney's counter-terrorism unit began looking into Rahmany and his "criminal associates" in May.
The elite police unit was investigating Australians facilitating travel for people to fight with terrorist groups overseas and planning terrorist acts, the facts state.
After police raided his western Sydney home in the early hours of last Thursday, Rahmany said the four rounds of ammunition were from a shooting expedition on a farm earlier this year.
"He then forgot that the rounds were there and came home and noticed them in his jacket pocket and left them on his dresser," the facts state.
Rahmany told police a friend had given him the Taser to repair about four months ago.
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