Alleged Dlasthr gang member looks to clean up act as parole date set

An alleged member of a violent Middle Eastern gang will soon be released back into the Queensland community after police found him with a “substantial” amount of methamphetamine stashed in his underwear.

Kris Mircevski, now 39, leaving the Southport Watchhouse in 2017. Picture: File/ Scott Fletcher

An alleged member of a violent Middle Eastern gang will soon be released back into the Queensland community after police found him with bags of methamphetamine stashed in his underwear.

Kris Mircevski, who police previously alleged was tied to a gang known as Dlasthr (the last hour), was on Monday sentenced to three years in jail for drug offences.

Brisbane Supreme Court heard Mircevski, 39, was pulled over at Eagleby in January last year when police found he was carrying 3g of pure methamphetamine.

“You seemed to have attempted to conceal the bags by putting them in your underwear and they were discovered in the search,” Justice Thomas Bradley said.

Kris Mircevski at the Southport Watchhouse in 2017. Picture Scott Fletcher

Mircevski was again pulled over five months later at a Woodridge service station where police found he was carrying 5.1g of pure methamphetamine.

His car was uninsured, unregistered and had registration plates belonging to another car.

Crown prosecutor Ellie Jary argued Mircevski’s drug stash was for commercial and personal use.

The dad-of-two on Monday pleaded guilty to five charges including two counts of possessing a dangerous drug in excess of 2g.

The court heard Sydney-born Mircevski was on parole at the time of some of the offences for previous drug activity.

Police had raided his Labrador property in 2017 when Taskforce Maxima Detective Inspector Phillip Stevens said Mircevski was one of two Dlasthr members that police were aware of on the Gold Coast.

Dlasthr, an offshoot of the Assyrian Kings, rose to prominence in Sydney in the late 1990s and early 2000s and is made up mostly of people whose families came from the Middle East.

The court on Monday heard Mircevski had an extensive criminal history littered with drug offences from New South Wales and Queensland.

Kris Mircevski.

His barrister Colin Reid said Mircevski’s life had been plagued by drugs.

“However it is this period, since October 2020, that has convinced him that he cannot continue living in the way he has and there was some inkling that during the Court Link program in 202 that he had shown some resolve to overcome his problems,” Mr Reid said.

He said there was some prospect of Mircevksi’s son coming to live with him which was a motivation to remain drug-free.

Justice Bradley considered Mircevski had served 194 days of pre-sentence custody.

Mircevski’s brother and partner sat in the court as he was sentenced for one drug charge to three years in jail, suspended immediately for four years.

Justice Bradley also sentenced him to two years and 10 months with a parole release date of October 31, 2021.

Mircevski nodded as Justice Bradley told him of the support he would need on the outside to remain clean.