By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A couple have been charged with drug trafficking after a police raid of their home in Dominic Court, Pakenham on 4 February.
Police seized 1,4-butanediol, cannabis, pills, an LSD tab, prescription meds and a “significant” bag of “white powder”, as well as a Rolex watch, other people’s ID and bank cards, a court heard.
Police told a Dandenong Magistrates’ Court bail hearing that day that the pair were charged with trafficking 1,4-butanediol, cannabis and methamphetamine
Magistrate Doug Bolster questioned why police had released the male accused on bail but opposed bail to the 34-year-old woman.
The male was possibly the “principal offender”, Mr Bolster said.
A police prosecutor told the court that the woman had “outstanding bail issues”, and had been on bail during the alleged drug trafficking.
While on bail on drug charges, she’d been accused of carrying a bottle of GHB upon entering Dandenong Magistrates’ Court in December, police said.
She’d allegedly tried to tip out the bottle’s contents when it was detected by court security staff, police said.
She resisted arrest, spat on a police officer’s ear and was OC-sprayed as she tried to flee.
If bailed, the woman would return to the home with her partner, who was a unemployed drug-user, police argued.
Mr Bolger granted bail, noting the accused’s lack of convictions as well as her partner being bailed “under his own undertaking” for the same charges.
It was not a “foregone conclusion” that she would be jailed for her role, Mr Bolger said.
“The fact that she could commit offences on bail is always a risk but it’s a risk I’m prepared to take.”
She was bailed to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 4 March.
