Jasmine Petrovski: Beauty student with a love for designer bags guilty of dealing meth

A failed beauty student from Mill Park was busted with meth, GHB and Xanax with police getting a shock when they raided her home.

Jasmine Petrovski, a 28-year-old beauty student, was charged with several offences including trafficking meth and GHB.

An unemployed beauty student with a passion for designer bags and shoes also had a love for party drugs, prescription meds and tasers, a court has heard.

Jasmine Petrovski, 28, pleaded guilty in the Heidelberg Magistrate’s Court to a host of charges, including the possession of a prohibited weapon and trafficking drugs while on bail.

Petrovski was snared by the police when they received reports of a vehicle being driven erratically early in Thomastown in the early hours of April 8.

Police intercepted the car to find Petrovski behind the wheel in a “substance-affected state” and with a disqualified license.

After searching the vehicle, police found a beautician container in the boot filled with loose Xanax tablets, which Petrovski said she had “gotten from Saudi Arabia from a friend”.

Xanax is a strong tranquilliser medicine that is classified as an illegal drug of dependence without a prescription.

Police also found $2000 in cash and $5000 in designer handbags and shoes in the car.

Jasmine Petrovski was charged for selling meth and GHB, as well as possessing an illegal taser.

Petrovski was charged with possession of drugs while on bail, as she was on remand after being charged with cannabis possession in late 2020.

She had also been before the court for trafficking meth in 2020 and had been placed on a corrections order with curfew, which she had then breached.

Petrovski was caught out again when police searched her home in Thomastown on May 13, finding an array of illegal drugs including meth, bottles of GHB, cannabis, prescription tablets as well as two tasers.

Police reported Petrovski had a “homemade taser” in her bedroom, as well as professionally manufactured one.

When police asked her to unlock her phone with a PIN, she refused. She was arrested and taken to Reservoir police station, but was released after she tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival.

She was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, trafficking meth and GHB, as well as possession of MDMA and cannabis.

The court heard Petrovski had struggled with drug dependence for the past two years, as her defence said she struggled with unemployment after quitting her job just before the pandemic hit.

“Prior to 2020 she was working as a store manager for eight years, she was not using drugs throughout that period of time,” Petrovski’s defence said.

“She made the decision pre-Covid to leave that job in the hope of a career change.

“She left right before the pandemic hit and then she was left unemployed for quite some time.

“She was associating with anti-social peers and using drugs, her drug use escalated in the context of being unemployed.”

Petrovski solemnly sat in the court, carrying a Louis Vuitton handbag with her hot pink hair tied up in a scrunchie.

The defence argued Petrovski had made efforts to self-rehabilitate through gaining a medical Mental Health Care Plan and planned to become qualified in eyelash and teeth-whitening beauty services through studies.

Petrovski will return to court for sentencing.