Crooked Melbourne conveyancer Alejandra Romero caught with hidden meth lab at dead mum’s Mill Park home: Court

A disgraced Melbourne conveyancer who hit the ice pipe hard was caught with a hidden meth lab and bogus cash at the home of her recently deceased mum.

Alejandra Romero pleaded guilty to various criminal charges. Picture: Facebook.

A failed ice-addled Melbourne conveyancer claimed a secret meth lab set up at her dead mother’s Mill Park home belonged to her druggie ex-boyfriend.

Alejandra Romero, 34, was sentenced in the County Court last Monday after pleading guilty to possess substances to traffick drugs and possess counterfeit cash.

Romero was nabbed with $2000 in counterfeit $100 notes, a taser and substances used to traffick meth after police raided her deceased mum’s Mill Park home on June 20, 2022.

Investigators also discovered a clandestine meth lab concealed behind a “hinged false wall” in the study of the Mill Park home.

The concealed wall was operated via “wheels and a magnet system”, the court was told.

Alejandra Romero pleaded guilty to various criminal charges. Picture: Facebook.

The court heard it was not alleged Romero was in “operation” of the illicit meth lab.

However, Romero, a former law clerk and conveyancer, pleaded guilty to possessing several items “connected to trafficking” meth including glass stoppers, a funnel and caustic soda.

Investigators also searched Romero’s Volkswagen where they seized a taser.

Romero told police “anything behind the wall” belonged to her former partner who had also lived at the Mill Park property.

Romero, who also pleaded guilty to multiple obtain a financial advantage by deception charges, set up bogus energy accounts using the names of unwitting marks to grift power for the Mill Park home.

The bogus accounts were closed down just prior to the June 20 raid.

The court heard Romero was a promising law clerk and conveyancer who worked several years in the industry before she commenced her own conveyancing business.

Romero hasn’t worked since her business “venture” failed during the Covid-19 pandemic and she is now on the dole, the court was told.

Romero, who was unemployed and “abusing” drugs at the time of her arrest, started using drugs when she was “28 or 29” after a friend introduced her to meth.

It was submitted, Romero has been “homeless for some time” and couch surfing because the council has yet to classify her mother’s Mill Park home “fit for habitation”.

Romero, who has priors for shoplifting, was convicted and handed a 12-month community correction order.