Jake Low: Canberra electrician accused of trafficking cocaine
A tradie is accused of drug trafficking after a raid on his Canberra home allegedly uncovered a $250,000 brick of cocaine hidden in a secret wall along with a handwritten ledger.
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A drug raid on a Canberra tradie’s home allegedly uncovered a $250,000 haul of cocaine, as well as handwritten notes detailing how much of the drug he had sold and who had racked up drug debts, a court has heard.
Jake Low, 28, of Dunlop in Canberra’s northeastern suburbs, fronted the ACT Magistrates Court on Monday morning charged with trafficking cocaine.
The court heard Low, an electrician, has only ever been in legal strife for possessing cocaine.
In documents tendered in court, police allege they found a brick of cocaine hidden in the wall behind the oven in Low’s house on Buckmaster Cres.
Police also allegedly found scales, cash, a phone that may have been encrypted, and a series of handwritten notes detailing how much of the drug had been sold, how much customers owed and how much they had paid.
Low was arrested when he returned home following the raid on Monday.
The court heard the approximately 1kg haul of the drug has a street value of about $250,000, and Chief Magistrate Lorraine Walker said there were “speculative but not unreasonable concerns” that Low would be pressed into further offending to recover a debt he might have incurred to higher-ups in the criminal underworld.
Chief Magistrate Walker said the case against Low was “strong” and it was “highly likely the defendant will serve a sentence of imprisonment” if found guilty.
“Clearly the cocaine came from somewhere and was intended to go somewhere,” Ms Walker said.
She said a kilogram of the drug suggested the alleged offending “necessarily involved significant criminal associates”.
Releasing Low on bail, even on strict conditions, Ms Walker said, would create a “real concern about a risk to the safety of the community as a whole” should he fall back into dealing drugs.
Low, who faces a maximum 10 year jail sentence if convicted, returns to court on June 2.