When someone asks you to dig up $7 million worth of meth that they’ve stashed by the side of the road, and offers to pay you $1000 for your trouble, here’s a gentle word of advice: don’t.
The Sydney Morning Herald report that two men, aged 23 and 29, have been jailed for trafficking offenses, after police caught them digging up containers of methamphetamines.
The incident occurred in March of 2013, when police came across the pair “behaving strangely” by the side of Mt Gawler Road, Inglewood, as they were on an unrelated patrol.
The men had been offered $1000 to dig the drugs up and deliver them to a nearby house. On seeing Johnny Law, they ran away into bushland, but police pursued, catching them behind a water tank on a nearby property.
The containers they were digging up were found to contain 6.85kg of drugs, which were subsequently “forfeited to the crown.”
In his sentencing, Judge David Lovell said that while their involvement with the drugs was “low level”, the offense was still serious. Steven Joseph Jacques, 29, was jailed for three years and one month with a non-parole period of 14 months.
Bradley Grant Sanderson, 23, was sentenced to two years and five months, and taking into account time already served, could be released on parole after six months.
