Fish shop owner 'had plan to kill landlord' over dispute A TWEED seafood shop operator has been hauled before a Brisbane court charged with conspiring to kill his landlord. Menniti's Seafood operator Joseph Palermo, 36, of Pacific Pines, and co-accused Trent Daniel Habershon, 25, fronted the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday morning charged with conspiracy to murder. Palermo was further charged with the alleged possession of a sawn-off shotgun wrapped in a towel in the boot of his car. Police allegedly caught the two men outside the landlord's home at Clayfield in the early hours of the Friday morning after intercepting a series of "concerning" phone taps. The court was told Palermo had been locked out of his seafood shop by his landlord, over unpaid rent. Lawyer Jason Buckland, for Palermo, said his client had operated the business for seven years and invested at least $500,000 in equipment and improvements into the business. He said Palermo was in the process of taking his landlord to the Supreme Court in order to resolve the dispute, seek a claim for damages and regain entry to the River Terrace restaurant. Prosecutor acting Senior Sergeant Tara Pease said the duo were subject to phone taps by police which divulged plans to place a GPS tracking device on the landlord's car and give him "a love tap." The phone taps were instigated by NSW police after the seafood shop was hit twice over the Christmas period by vandals. The court heard police had suspected Palermo's involvement into an attempt to firebomb the property. Sen-sgt Pease said police intercepted a phone conversation between Palermo and his co-accused on Wednesday at 5pm. "We have no choice. we've got to go up and get the old man tonight," she read. She said Palermo's phone had bounced off towers near to the landlord's Brisbane home and he was allegedly conducting "surveillance" in the area. She said a second recorded conversation between the co-accused on Wednesday night divulged their plans to do the landlord harm. 3am, just me and you. It's a better idea, it's cleaner ... Just the two of us. We'll get him on the way to work," Palermo was heard to say. She said police found the men outside the landlord's home with a knife, a baton, zip-ties, printed emails detailing the landlord's behaviour and a shortened shotgun in the boot. Sen-Sgt Pease said the alleged offences were serious and posed a serious risk to the landlord. "He should remain in custody for the safety of the complainant in this matter," she said. Mr Buckland withdrew his application for bail and Palermo was remanded in custody for committal call over on February 10 by Magistrate Jacqui Payne His family waited in the public gallery. His co-accused Habershon made no application for bail and was remanded in custody for the same date.