Son of former cop jailed for buying drugs online

THE son of a former cop is behind bars after buying drugs online and having them mailed to a Cheltenham post box.

THE son of a former cop who had illegal drugs bought over the internet mailed to a Cheltenham post office has been spared a lengthy prison sentence.

Christopher Cooper will spend the next nine months behind bars after pleading guilty in the County Court last month to charges of importing a marketable quantity of border-controlled drugs.

Cooper, a personal trainer, was nabbed by Australian Federal Police officers at his F45 Training workplace after they intercepted packages containing MDMA, cocaine, GHB and cannabis.

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They were sent between April 21 and August 2, 2017, to a Cheltenham post office box Cooper opened with a fake name.

The drugs were concealed in items inside the packages, most of which were sent from the UK, with one from a Dutch toy company.

The cannabis resin had been sent from NSW.

AFP officers conducted surveillance at the post office on June 27 where they observed Cooper flee the scene, but he wasn’t arrested until July 26.

County Court Judge Susan Cohen sentenced Cooper to 34 months but ordered he spend only nine months behind bars.

He was spared a longer sentence because of anxiety due to a troubled home life and his “good prospects of rehabilitation”.

It was also accepted Cooper had ordered the drugs for “personal use” despite most of the consignments exceeding the “marketable quantity threshold”.

However, Judge Cohen said a prison sentence was necessary as it acted as a “general deterrence”.

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