Melbourne party boys Jacob Goldsmid and Yohann Moreau plead guilty to trafficking drugs

The fun is over for a pair of St Kilda-based party lovers who shifted a mountain of drugs at various Melbourne Airbnbs.

Yohann Moreau pleaded guilty to trafficking a large commercial quantity of drugs. Facebook.

A Melbourne party boy pair which ran a cocaine, MDMA and ketamine trafficking empire masked with secret ledgers and strict rules when dealing with customers has been jailed.

Jacob Goldsmid, 24, and Yohann Moreau, 28, were sentenced in the County Court on Tuesday after the pair pleaded guilty to trafficking a large commercial quantity of drugs.

The former St Kilda-based duo peddled large amounts of MDMA, cocaine and ketamine between December 2019 and July 2020.

Goldsmid and Moreau, who also both pleaded guilty to trafficking speed and LSD, ran their racket out of multiple Airbnbs.

The pair, who alternated “shifts” at the Airbnbs, also stored drugs, cash and a secret ledger at a Balaclava apartment nicknamed “the shop”.

Police latched on to the duo’s racket after a drug-addled and shirtless Goldsmid dropped three backpacks and a mobile phone while he roamed St Kilda East on December 15, 2019.

Police, who picked up Goldsmid incoherent early the next morning, transferred him to The Alfred, where he spent the next 16 hours.

In the meantime, Goldsmid’s backpacks, phone and wallet were handed into police.

The backpacks contained a combined 240 grams of cocaine, 1.1kg of MDMA, 333 grams of ketamine, 125 grams of speed, scales, deal bags, notebooks and $16,877 cash.

Investigators examined Goldsmid’s phone and discovered his social media accounts and drug dealing transaction messages.

The notebooks contained information linked to various properties, buried cash and a safe, rules related to “operating the shop”, more drug deal entries and “rules for customers”.

Investigators, who let Goldsmid walk from hospital, launched a covert operation to snare the dealer in April, 2020.

Undercover cops met Goldsmid and purchased cocaine from him.

Police then tailed Goldsmid to and from apartments in St Kilda and Balaclava and set up phone intercepts.

Goldsmid was caught discussing the drug racket with Moreau.

Police raided the Balaclava “shop” where they located valium, Xanax, cocaine, ketamine, tablets and a drug ledger on June 4, 2020.

Goldsmid and Moreau weren’t present during the raid so police photographed items at the scene and slipped away.

Investigators then raided the pair’s St Kilda apartment where they seized a Google phone nicknamed the “shop phone”, the drug ledger first seen at the Balaclava apartment, cocaine and cash on July 21.

Police also seized $7000 cash from a Nissan Navara parked outside the apartment and $10,000 from Goldsmid’s Rosebud bungalow.

Goldsmid and Moreau were arrested and hauled away for questioning.

The pair both confessed to operating a joint drug trafficking enterprise for 12 months and admitted they both made entries into the drug ledger.

Goldsmid also admitted he dumped the backpacks because he thought someone was trying to rob him but only remembers waking up in hospital and walking home.

Goldsmid said he was transporting the drugs between locations at the time.

Moreau admitted he was aware Goldsmid lost their drug haul.

Police had the pair done cold thanks to the seized drugs and the comprehensive ledger.

Goldsmid was done for almost a kilo of cocaine, 1.8kg of ketamine, 1.47kg of MDMA and $34,262 cash.

Moreau was cooked for almost a kilo of cocaine, 1.96kg of ketamine, 1.37kg of MDMA and $16,877 cash.

The court heard the total profits of the drug sales between March and June 2020, according to the ledger, was $164,610.

Moreau, a French national in Melbourne on a student visa, was jailed for a maximum of eights with a minimum of four years.

Goldsmid, a former landscaper, was jailed for a maximum nine years with a minimum of four years and six months.