Rohan McTeare chastised for ‘humiliating’ drug trafficking and rehab escape in Mildura court
A Mildura lowlife had a bag of meth up his bum after police hauled him into the station after he was caught in an operation targeting drug dealers.
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A Mildura man who was caught in a police sting trafficking drugs pulled a bag of meth out of his rectum at a cop shop in a “squalid and humiliating” piece of offending.
Rohan McTeare fronted Mildura Magistrates’ Court to plead guilty to multiple charges including trafficking a drug of dependence, failing to answer bail and handling stolen goods.
The court heard McTeare had been busted on police surveillance multiple times during a police sting to bust a loose syndicate of drug traffickers.
On September 8, McTeare was caught discussing the sale of 28 grams of meth, and just eight days later he was busted again, this time with the sale of three ‘8-balls’ of the drug.
McTeare was arrested on September 20 after a search of his house uncovered both stolen registration plates and a small amount of cocaine.
He was taken to the Mildura police station where he was observed removing a zip-lock bag of drugs from his rectum, before giving a no comment interview to police.
He was bailed to a rehab facility, Odyssey House, in January of this year where he left without permission and failed to show up for his March court date. He was rearrested in July.
Magistrate Patrick Southey said McTeare’s behaviour was embarrassing and chastised him for leaving rehab while on bail, labelling that decision as, “astonishingly stupid.”
”Sticking drugs up your bum. How squalid and humiliating. It is embarrassing, isn’t it?” Mr Southey said.
McTeare’s lawyer, Rebecca Boreham, argued her client had served 280 days in pre-sentence detention and noted that co-accused offenders had received less time in custody despite trafficking larger quantities of drugs.
McTeare told the court he was now clean of drugs and looking to start a new life in Melbourne.
Mr Southey convicted McTeare and sentenced him to 280 days behind bars, reckoned as time served. He was released from prison later that day.
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