Melbourne drug trafficker dads: Timour Madkour, Paul Rodgerson, Dion Camilleri, Wayne Staff
No world’s greatest dad mugs for these Victorian fathers whose only number 1 dad status comes in the drug dealing ranks.
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Let’s hope the apple fell very far from the tree in respect to these Victorian dads most of whom were carted into jail for drug dealing.
Check out the list which includes a Flying Kangaroo ecstasy kingpin, a GHB peddler and drug trafficking dad petrified of dogs.
SCAREDY-CAT DAD
A Ballarat dad was nabbed hoarding guns and a large amount of drugs, cash and stolen goods.
Matthew Piscopo was sentenced in the County Court last May to a minimum three years and ten months’ jail after pleading guilty to trafficking meth and possessing a trafficable quantity of guns.
Piscopo was nabbed with more than 60 grams of meth and six guns at his Canadian home on May 28, 2020.
Police also seized liquid meth, deal bags, scales from a bedroom and $5000 cash buried in the backyard of Piscopo’s Rattray Crt property.
Investigators discovered 55 grams of meth and a stolen modified Nikko 12-guage shotgun hidden in the garage roof cavity which the court heard was “ready at hand”.
Police also found several guns buried in the backyard including a homemade handgun capable of discharge and a dismantled rifle.
Three of the seized firearms had been stolen during separate gun heists at properties in Beveridge and Mount Evelyn, the court heard.
Piscopo, who was also caught with stolen power tools, ammunition and a stolen motorbike, told police the guns were for protection, the meth was for “personal use” and he got the cash “selling things”.
The court heard Piscopo, a labourer, claimed he had been “abducted” by “other people in the drug world” and he acquired the weapons because he was “scared”.
Piscopo was jailed for a maximum five years and four months.
DEADBEAT DAD DONE BY DETECTIVE DOG
A drug-dealing dad was busted trafficking meth after leading police on a terrifying chase through Dandenong.
Wayne Staff was sentenced in the County Court in October 2020 to a minimum three-year jail term after pleading guilty to trafficking a commercial quantity of meth.
Staff was lit up after police spotted him a run a red light in Dandenong early on December 4 2019.
The desperado burned off down Lonsdale St towards Stud Rd in his purple Holden Commodore while being tailed by police.
Staff then drove through barriers and onto the opposite side of the Princes Hwy causing oncoming motorists to swerve out of the way.
Police ground units had already backed off Staff as the Airwing took up the pursuit.
Staff was spotted driving into a garage at an Anne St home.
Investigators stormed the home and discovered Staff’s partner but the fiend was nowhere to be found.
A quick search of the home and Staff’s Commodore uncovered almost 200gm of meth, $1600 cash, credit cards and IDs in other names and a tick book.
Police with the help of the police dog discovered Staff hiding in the roof cavity.
Officers demanded Staff come down or they would sick their dog onto him.
“I’m scared of dogs,” Staff said.
Police backed the dog off and Staff came down.
Staff was jailed for a maximum four years and nine months.
ARMED FAMILY MAN
Heidelberg West dad Shannon Tibos was caught not only dealing drugs out of his family car, but also using it to harbour weapons, including a shotgun and ammunition.
He was found with 17g of ice and scales in a cooler bag on the passenger seat when police found him behind a Heidelberg West gym about 12.35am on October 25, 2019, after they observed him drive there from BP Reservoir in convoy with another car.
A large knife was in the driver’s door and nine diazepam pills and an oxazepam pill were in Tibos’ pocket.
The father of four was then on bail when police pulled him over on April 17 and found a longarm shotgun and five rounds of ammunition underneath the spare tyre cover in the Holden Commodore.
There was another knife in the driver’s door, and five vials of steroids were found in a subsequent search of his home.
Tibos had multiple prior convictions for illegally having firearms.
He was sentenced to a minimum of six months’ jail before Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court in June, 2020.
ALADDIN’S CAVE DAD
Botanic Ridge dad Timour Madkour was nabbed with an Aladdin’s Cave of meth, GHB, steroids and weapons at his family home, where his partner and children lived.
Police raided his home on March 19, 2019, grabbing him as he tried to do a runner out the back.
They seized a stack of drugs including 360g of meth, 1.8kg of GHB and bottles of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones.
Police also found a homemade 9mm handgun, four samurai swords, a knuckleduster, an extendible baton, a silencer, ammunition, young cannabis plants and more than $37,000 cash.
Madkour’s lawyer told the County Court he was selling drugs to get money to help his family move.
Madkour was jailed for a minimum of five years before the County Court in November 2020.
FLYING KANGAROO ECSTASY DAD
An Aspendale dad was revealed as the ringleader of a drug gang which manufactured and peddled ecstasy via the dark web.
Paul Rodgerson was sentenced in the County Court in February last year to a minimum three years and eight months’ jail after pleading guilty to charges including trafficking a marketable quantity of MDMA.
Federal authorities latched onto Rodgerson, who ran drug gang ‘The Flying Kangaroo’ and his crew after discovering an advert on dark net site Dream Market.
Covert operative ‘Red Bandit’ purchased the gang’s signature Qantas logo stamped flying kangaroo ecstasy via Wickr, Dream Market and dark web site AlphaBay.
FBI evidence revealed 72 separate buyers — not including Red Bandit — purchased 3130 Flying Kangaroo tablets via AlphaBay using Bitcoin at a combined value of almost $32,000 USD.
Crony Robert Olczyk manufactured the ecstasy at a Moorabbin factory leased by Rodgerson, while the gang sought to purchase pill presses and had dealings with manufacturers in China.
Rodgerson was jailed for a maximum six years and five months.
BOGGED BRICKIE GHB DAD
A Mt Dandenong brickie claimed he was getting paid good coin to shift more than 6kg of a dangerous rave drug linked to date rape.
Dion Camilleri was sentenced in the County Court in October to time served – 63 days – after pleading guilty to trafficking a commercial quantity of 1,4 butanediol.
Camilleri was busted at R.J. Hammer Arboretum in Olinda by cops who had been called out to investigate a disturbance early on July 18 last year.
The bricklayer, who was living with his parents at the time, attempted to conceal a black bag containing the lethal substance which mirrors party drug GHB when ingested.
Camilleri sensationally claimed he got his ute bogged on a wooden post but denied the bag of drugs was his.
The bute was contained in seven dirt-covered bottles, some of which were strapped with duct tape, the court was told.
Police discovered the drugs, hauled Camilleri in for questioning then raided his Mt Dandenong Tourist Rd home.
Investigators discovered GHB, meth, cannabis and multiple mobile phones at the property.
Camilleri, who submitted he was a”courier”, said he was getting paid $2000 to transport the drugs.
“It was my job,” Camilleri said.
“Someone … would pick it up, I’d get my money, and then it’d be gone, ‘cause I dunno what they do with it.
“This is honestly, like, the second time I’ve been involved with it … I didn’t know what was in there … maybe pills, ecstasy pills.
“I know it was going to be illegal … they had a whole heap of, like, puff buried and everything … the juice wasn’t mine.”
Judge David Brookes also sentenced Camilleri to a three-year community correction order.
BONEHEAD DAD
An Endeavour Hills drug dealer was nabbed with high-grade methamphetamine after he gave police a bonehead excuse during an early morning traffic stop.
Timothy Paul was sentenced in the County Court last March to six months’ jail after pleading guilty to multiple charges including trafficking meth.
Paul and his co-offender Kristy Campbell were pulled over in Glen Iris just after 2.30am on October 9, 2018.
Paul told police he had driven from Point Cook to the other side of town late at night to collect a “car part”.
The senior constable leading the traffic stop didn’t believe Paul so she asked him to exit his Mazda.
Paul got stroppy after the senior constable told him she would also be searching the car.
“On what grounds?,” Paul said.
“I don’t believe what you’ve told me,” she said.
“You’re driving around at 2.30 in the morning with no plates on the car.
“You’re telling me you’ve come from Point Cook to pick up a part for the car when nothing is open at this time of the night and you have no reason for being in Glen Iris.”
Paul threatened the senior constable that he would contact her “superior”.
“You’re more than welcome to do that but it won’t change anything,” she said.
Police searched the car and seized more than 70g of high-grade meth and a tick book.
Campbell, who got testy after police spotted she had something concealed in her bra, was thrown in the back of the divvy van.
Police raided Paul’s Endeavour Hills’ home later that morning.
Investigators seized MDMA and weapons including a machete, taser, baton and laser.
Campbell was sentenced in the magistrates’ court in January last year to a 12-month community correction order after pleading guilty to charges including trafficking meth.
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