A TATTOO artist found with drugs and a number of items belonging to the Whitsunday Navy cadets will be released from prison on Christmas Eve.

Clint Mark Trimmer has been in custody since October 29.

The 30-year-old appeared in the Proserpine Magistrate's court on Monday via a video-link with the Capricornia Correctional Centre.

Trimmer told magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist he wanted to plead guilty to his 10 charges including unlicensed driving, committing a public nuisance offence, possessing and producing dangerous drugs, possessing drug related utensils and items used in the commission of crime, obstructing police, trespassing and receiving tainted property. The court heard that at 2.10am on October 20, Trimmer was intercepted for a random breath test and licence check on Shute Harbour Road, Jubilee Pocket. Checks revealed his licence was suspended until January 13, 2015, due to the accumulation of demerit points.

At 10.50am that same day, police executed a search warrant at Trimmer's Jubilee Pocket address where he was found with Navy camouflage pants and Navy cadet uniform epaulettes know to have been stolen from the local cadet unit by Timothy Jozef Lever.

Police prosecutor Elizabeth Smith said Trimmer admitted the property had been left at his home by Lever and said he wore the trousers hunting "and thought they were good pants".

Ms Smith said police also found two cannabis plants growing outside - one a small seedling, the other about 30cm tall. She said Trimmer admitted cultivating the plants saying he planned to smoke them as cannabis was getting too expensive.

Clip seal bags containing 0.4g of cannabis and 0.1g of methyl amphetamine were found in Trimmer's bedroom along with a set of scissors, a metal pipe and a water pipe. Ms Smith said Trimmer told police the crystal substance was rock salt. On October 23, police were called to a disturbance at Community Solutions in Cannonvale. Ms Smith said Trimmer had gone there to find housing but was told to go to Centrelink and got upset.

He was arrested later that day but released on bail on October 24.

On October 29 at 4.30am, police received a call for assistance relating to a trespass at a Cannonvale unit. Trimmer was found asleep on the veranda holding a pipe. Ms Smith said he struggled with police while being handcuffed and head-butted the interior of the police van. Once at the watch house he was placed in a violent detention cell.

In court on Monday, Trimmer claimed he was invited to the home by the occupant "to put a tattoo on her arm, which is what I did". For the unlicensed driving offence, Trimmer was fined $330 and disqualified from driving for six months. For all of the other offences he was sentenced to a total of six months imprisonment. After declaring the time served since October 29, magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist set a parole release date of December 24, telling Trimmer "you've got your line in the sand now, you've got your date".