Endeavour Hills dad Timothy Paul jailed for trafficking meth after Glen Iris traffic stop
An Endeavour Hills dad and his druggie ex-girlfriend were nabbed with high-grade meth after telling cops a bonehead porky pie.
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An Endeavour Hills drug dealer nabbed with high-grade methamphetamine after he gave police a bonehead excuse during an early morning traffic stop has been jailed.
Timothy Paul, 34, was sentenced in the County Court on Monday 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.
“You’re driving through an area where we get a lot of reports for theft from motor vehicles and burglaries, you’ve got tools in the back seat and now you’re being argumentative about it.”
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.
The officer removed the keys from the ignition and waited for more police to arrive.
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.
Paul, who gave a “no comment” interview, was charged and bailed.
However, Paul was thrown in jail after he pleaded guilty to subsequent drug trafficking offences committed while on bail in February last year.
The court heard Paul, who appeared via videolink from Barwon Prison, had begun a pest control business but that went belly up so he hit the drugs hard.
Paul, who has a son, was in a short, drug-fuelled relationship with Campbell but they broke up following the offending.
Judge Chris Ryan highlighted the 80 per cent purity of the meth.
“You can get much higher,” Judge Ryan said.
Paul wants to move back in with mum when he is released.
Campbell was sentenced in the magistrates’ court on January 25 to a 12-month community correction order after pleading guilty to charges including trafficking meth.
