Milo Cardwell: Plumber sentenced for supplying ketamine
An apprentice plumber was fast asleep in bed with his girlfriend when police stormed his room in Sydney’s east during a drugs raid. Flanked by his parents, he has today been sentenced in court.
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An apprentice plumber caught with an array of drugs including a stash of ketamine during an early morning police raid in Randwick has learned his punishment in court.
Milo Cardwell, 20, was fast asleep in bed with his girlfriend when police stormed a house on Arthur St about 6am on July 29.
The raid was one of 11 search warrants carried out that day by Strike Force Caladenia across Sydney’s inner suburbs.
The strike force operation – targeting drug supply – netted 16 arrests and the seizure of illegal drugs including ketamine, cocaine and MDMA.
Cardwell, a former Rose Bay Secondary College student, was granted bail in court following his arrest and was collected by his parents at Waverley Police Station.
He appeared in Waverley Local Court on Wednesday to be sentenced for five charges including supply prohibited drug (ketamine) which he pleaded guilty to.
The agreed facts stated he was fast asleep next to his girlfriend inside the Arthur St premises where “a number of other persons” were also staying in separate rooms. There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by his girlfriend.
Police forced entry through the front door before shuffling all the occupants into the living room.
The agreed facts stated police searched the premises and found 17.88g of ketamine powder, 1g of MDMA, two vials of steroids, and four cannabis resin infused gummy bears inside Cardwell’s room.
Police alleged he possessed the ketamine for supply.
Police also found other illegal drugs in the premises.
Cardwell, who now resides in Rose Bay, was convicted, fined $300 and placed on a community correction order for a period of nine months.
The court heard he had fronted the Local Court in the past for other matters including being convicted for running across the pitch at a Sydney Roosters game when he was 19.
His lawyer argued Cardwell did not possess the ketamine for supply and rather had it for personal use.
“He is certainly no principal of a drug syndicate but rather an individual caught in the net of a substance abuse cycle.”
Magistrate Jacqueline Trad said the offending required a conviction.
“The offences are not trivial. You are not young enough not to know better and you have been before the courts before so you know that your conduct has consequences.”
Cardwell was supported by his parents in court.
Other alleged offenders charged during the Strike Force Caladenia operation remain before the courts.