South Ripley truckie Trevor Ross Carter caught with 2kg of cocaine under truck mattress

A Queensland truckie caught with 2.3kg of cocaine told police he must have been set up. See what led to his arrest and where the drugs were hidden.

A Queensland truckie was caught with a 2.3kg cocaine stash under his cabin mattress during a heavy vehicle inspection on the M1 in Mount White.

Trevor Ross Carter, of South Ripley, appeared at Gosford Local Court via audio visual link from jail on Friday and pleaded guilty to supply prohibited drug greater than the large commercial quantity and a related charge of possess prohibited drug.

The 55-year-old also pleaded guilty to drive vehicle with illicit drug present in blood.

An agreed set of facts state that Carter was pulled over at the heavy vehicle inspection station on the M1 at Mt White around 9.40pm on September 30 2021 where he underwent a drug test which was positive for methylamphetamine.

Carter was driving back to Brisbane when he was stopped in Mt White.

Police also searched Carter’s Kenworth Prime Mover, which had unladen trailers, and found 2385g of cocaine hidden under a mattress in his cabin along with 1g of methylamphetamine and a glass pipe.

The cocaine was wrapped in two blocks, one weighing 1006.5g with 75 per cent purity and the other 1000.8g with 84.5 per cent purity.

The facts state that Carter and a man were texting over September 28, 29 and 30 using language such as “can you bring me a hb?”, “any freight tonight?” and referring to picking up bags.

On the morning of September 30, Carter and another truck driver, who is a co-accused in the matter, drove to a warehouse, factory and industrial premises on Hale St Botany which houses FedEx.

Carter was also found with 1g of methylamphetamine and a glass pipe.

The facts say that around 10.20am Carter walked away from his prime mover and left the driver’s door of his cabin open.

The other driver walked to Carter’s truck empty-handed and left with a black sports bag that Carter photographed earlier and sent to a contact with a message “I’m not coming back ever I have a bag full of coin going to buy a house for cash lol”.

The other driver left and returned 12 minutes later, heading back to Carter’s truck carrying a green enviro bag under his arm before leaving the complex empty-handed.

Carter left Botany around 6.40pm before being stopped by officers at the Mt White station who noticed he was “nervous and defensive”.

Carter was taken to Gosford Police Station where he told police he may have been set up during an interview, according to the facts.

He said he drove the prime mover five days a week and had driven from Brisbane to Sydney to drop trailers at FedEx in Botany before making the return trip.

Carter pleaded guilty to supplying a prohibited drug. Picture: David Swift

Carter told police he was at the Botany parking bay all day on September 30, having a drink with a fellow truckie called “Chubby” before sleeping most of the day, dropping his parcels at FedEx and leaving.

He said he had never seen the cocaine before and told police that someone must have placed it there while he was with Chubby or heating up his dinner.

Both Carter’s matters will be back in court on August 4, with the charges of supply prohibited drug and possess prohibited drug to be sentenced in Gosford District Court.