Lachlan Kilgallon jailed for being caught with MDMA tablets down his pants

A drug dealer who was caught with 47 MDMA tablets stashed down his pants outside a popular CBD hotel told police he didn’t know how they got there.

A drug dealer was caught with MDMA stashed down his pants only months after being given a chance by the court for a brazen robbery.

Lachlan Harrison Kilgallon, 20, was jailed for over four years after quickly relapsing back into drug use and selling to fuel his habit.

During sentencing, the District Court heard police attended the Crown & Anchor Hotel in Adelaide on December 24, 2022 after receiving information about an altercation.

Kilgallon fled from police but his evasion was short-lived when he hit a dead-end street.

“During a search of you police found 47 MDMA tablets stashed down the front of your pants,” Judge Kris Handshin said.

Lachlan Kilgallon was jailed for MDMA trafficking. Photo: Facebook

“You initially told police that you did not know where the tablets had come from but you later claimed they were for personal use and said that you consumed around 10 tablets of ecstasy per day.”

Police also found $2660 on him, which he told police he had won playing poker machines.

A search of Kilgallon’s house also uncovered $39,030 in a shoebox in his bedroom.

Kilgallon, of St Clair, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking.

The court heard Kilgallon began experimenting with cannabis in his early teenage years before moving on to cocaine and MDMA.

Kilgallon was sentenced to more than two years jail in September 2022 for attempted robbery after he made the decision to take a knife to a service station to steal money and cigarettes.

Lachlan, who was fuelled by a cocktail of drugs at the time of the offending, had his sentence suspended on a two-year, $500 good behaviour bond – which he breached with the new offending.

“In light of your background it is somewhat difficult to comprehend how you have now found yourself in this court twice facing very serious charges,” Judge Handshin said.

The court heard Kilgallon was dealing MDMA to fund his own habit, as well as having a gambling problem and a $45,000 debt as a result of a car accident.

Judge Handshin said it was worrying Kilgallon told a psychologist he did not consider his relapse into drug use to be problematic, saying “it wasn’t full on use. I was using just on the weekend if I went out or to a party”.

“Ultimately the onus is on you to assume control over your life, take personal accountability and to engage proactively and meaningfully in your personal rehabilitation,” Judge Handshin said.

Adding on the suspended sentence, Judge Handshin sentenced Kilgallon to four years and nine months jail, with a non-parole period of two years and eight months.

“The sale of illicit substances causes untold misery in our community for drug users, their friends, relatives and others more generally who often have to confront the frequently violent and unpredictable behaviour that accompanies drug use,” Judge Handshin said.

“You know this from your own experience of using drugs.”

The sentence was backdated to December 24.

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