He has been sentenced to jail.
The court heard that on April 29 last year police searched the bus Mr Evans had been living in for about six months at Victoria Lake Holiday Park in Shepparton.
They found a 12-gauge single barrel shotgun and a .22 calibre single shot rifle wrapped in a towel under the bed.
They also found an M&M’s container that was filled with methamphetamines in zip-lock bags.
A total of 103g of pure methamphetamines was in the container – mixed among a total of 126.1g of crystal substance.
Among the methamphetamines found were 40 individual zip-lock bags of small amounts that combined contained a total of 70g of the drug.
Police also seized two vials of testosterone and two plastic bottles of the steroid oxandrolone.
The court heard Evans was interviewed by police on two different occasions — giving different versions of why the guns and drugs were in the bus.
In an interview when he was arrested, he blamed another person for selling the drugs and possessing the guns.
In Evans’ second interview — the day after he was arrested — he told police he became involved in selling methamphetamines a week before Christmas and had bought an ounce every week off a supplier for $5500 an ounce on credit before the relationship soured over Evans owing the other person money.
He then established a new contact in Sydney and collected three ounces of ice, which was exchanged for $13,000.
Evans told police he went to Sydney twice more, picking up five ounces each time.
Evans also said he got the firearms for “self-protection”, as an associate of his had been “stood over by another person in the local area for selling methamphetamines”.
In handing down her sentence, Judge Robyn Harper referred to Evans’ difficult upbringing, that included abuse from childhood, saying that it would reduce his sentence.
She spoke about how Evans had started drinking alcohol and using cannabis at the age of 13, and had started using amphetamines when he was 38.
He began using methamphetamines in the months leading up to these offences after the death of his grandmother in 2023.
The court heard Evans also had prior convictions, including ones for possessing a shortened firearm and manufacturing drugs.
Judge Harper admonished Evans for the charges he faced on this occasion.
“Drugs and guns are too often seen together in court,” Judge Harper said.
“You need to realise this behaviour will not be tolerated by the courts or the community.”
Evans was sentenced to four years in prison, with a non-parole period of two years and six months.
The 393 days of pre-sentence detention he has spent awaiting his matter to finalise in court will count as time already served.
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