Callan Brilliant and two others front court over meth trafficking
The son of an ex-detective and two others were arrested for trafficking ice from an Airbnb in Greenvale where a stash of drugs and wads of counterfeit cash were recovered.
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Three men, including the son of an ex-detective, caught trafficking methamphetamine from a Greenvale Airbnb have been jailed despite their efforts at rehabilitation while on remand.
Callan Brilliant, Nathan Fenton and Thomas Cummins appeared in the County Court on Wednesday for sentencing after pleading guilty to a raft of charges, including trafficking meth, in June.
The trio were arrested when police searched an Airbnb they were staying in on February 22, 2022 and recovered a number of items, including meth and cash.
Brilliant, 38, whose father is a former Victoria Police detective sergeant, was sentenced to two years’ and 10 months’ jail with a non-parole of 22 months while Fenton was ordered to serve at least 14 months of his 23-month term before being eligible for parole.
Cummins was sentenced to five years’ jail with a three-year non-parole period.
Judge Simon Moglia said police found Cummins in the lounge of the Airbnb with 703 grams $24,000 in cash.
Brilliant was in bed and 4.3 grams of meth was found in a vehicle that belonged to him while $29,300 in counterfeit notes and $2100 suspected to be proceeds of crime were recovered from Fenton’s bedroom.
Police raided a storage facility at Tullamarine the same day and seized multiple items linked to proceeds of crime, including a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a Victoria Police issued ballistic vest and an Australian Border Force ID wallet.
Judge Moglia said the offending reflected the men’s descent into a significant and multifaceted life of crime.
“Your offending was reasonably sophisticated. It involved planning by each of you, the quantities of drugs trafficked were of significant value.
“I find that quite apart from any addiction with which you suffered at the time, you engaged in that trafficking for profit.”
Despite their efforts at rehabilitation, the judge said the seriousness of their offending warranted a prison term.
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