MAFS’s Chris Jensen walks free after being found guilty over role in $100,000 weed, coke, pill ring

A Married At First Sight star has walked free from a Brisbane court after admitting to trafficking in $100,000 worth of cannabis, and supplying cocaine and the drug ecstasy as part of a sophisticated drug ring.

A Married At First Sight star has walked free from court after admitting to trafficking in $100,000 worth of cannabis, and supplying cocaine and the drug ecstasy as part of a sophisticated drug ring.

Christopher Mark Jensen, 34, a FIFO plumber from Peregian Springs on the Sunshine Coast, was originally charged with trafficking in cannabis with an aggravated circumstance of serious organised crime, which meant that if convicted he faced a mandatory seven-year prison term.

But in the Supreme Court on Friday, Crown prosecutor Michael Andronicus dropped this charge and replaced it with a less serious charge of trafficking drugs over four months until October 2017, and two counts of drug supply.

He also pleaded guilty to supplying cocaine and ecstasy.

Mr Andronicus told the court that Jensen’s rank in the drug syndicate of up to 40 people meant that he was able to obtain cannabis from the ring “at cost”, then on-sell to his customers.

Chris Jensen on MAFS.

Jensen, who went by the nickname “dreads” because of his hairstyle at the time, was a wholesale customer of a Sunshine Coast drug kingpin, who sold $4m worth of drugs, including 626kg of cannabis, 1.8kg of cocaine and 2.9kg of MDMA and over 15,000 pills in a six-month period in 2017.

Jensen’s rank within the ring meant that he received 22kg of cannabis, a wholesale amount, for cost price, selling it for $103,450, together with his business partner.

Phone calls and messages tapped by police revealed Jensen was restocking with 28g of cocaine from his supplier, and they also reveal him telling a drug associate that it was “snowing tomorrow” referring to cocaine supply.

Police were able to obtain accurate figures the kingpin’s drug ring sales, because the syndicate hired a conscienscious bookkeeper and courier to count the dirty cash and keep tabs on the drug sales, Mr Andronicus told the court.

Chris Jensen

When police raided former model Jensen’s Peregian Springs home they found $5800 in cash, as well as 197g of cannabis in a vacuum-sealed bag, the court heard.

Alastair McDougall, counsel for Jensen, said that his client had no criminal history and submitted that media coverage of his charges meant the father-of-two had lost his FIFO job in the mines.

Justice Paul Freeburn described Jensen’s role as “pretty serious commercial dealing” but took into account the fact that he had not reoffended since he was charged nearly five years ago, and had no criminal history.

He sentenced Jensen to four years in jail, wholly-suspended for four years, for the trafficking charge, saying this was an “exceptional case” and deserved leniency.

He was also sentenced to 18 months prison, wholly suspended, for the two supply charges.

This is to be served concurrently with the trafficking sentence.

Chris Jensen leaves the Supreme Court after being sentenced on drug related charges. Photo Steve Pohlner