Endeavour Hills drug dealer Dion Negrea charged with trafficking meth and GHB after fresh bust
An Endeavour Hills dealer who ran a drug “super shop” with his uncle has allegedly been back dealing even larger amounts of drugs.
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A young druggie has been accused of dealing hefty amounts of drugs while serving a court sentence from when he previously ran a “one-stop super shop” drug racket with his uncle.
Dion Negrea, 24, fronted Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, facing a range of charges including trafficking a commercial quantity of meth and of GHB and six counts of burglary.
Police allegedly found 135g of meth, 2.5L of GHB, Diazepam, Xanax, and $57,450 cash in the Queens Rd, Melbourne apartment Negrea was allegedly living in on November 26.
He also allegedly had $4400 of counterfeit cash, a taser, stolen documents, police-issued clothing, scales, a cash counter and deal bags.
Negrea was allegedly breaching his bail by living in the apartment, but was granted another set of bail, before he was nabbed again in St Kilda on January 22.
Police allegedly found him in a car about 2am — when he was meant to home in line with his bail curfew — with 125ml of GHB with him and an altered licence.
He allegedly refused to give police the password to his phone and was taken into custody.
At the time Negrea was serving a 15-month CCO, which he was handed in the County Court last year after he and his uncle, Frank LoSurdo, were pinged peddling ecstasy, meth and MDMA from their Narre Warren property
The Hallam Secondary College fronted the court to apply for bail again, with police arguing Negrea was an unacceptable risk of offending in the community, saying he had a significant drug debt to repay.
His lawyer told the court Negrea has a significant drug problem, proposing he be bailed to attend a regional residential drug rehabilitation program.
The court heard Negrea had already undertaken a $45,000 three month rehab stint in 2019, but he had relapsed into drug use during last year’s COVID-19 lockdown.
A family member fronted the court to offer $20,000 surety against her business to help secure bail for Negrea.
Negrea’s lawyer argued his client risked spending too long in custody waiting for the charges to resolve.
Magistrate Goldberg ruled the delay meant there were exceptional circumstances to grant Negrea bail, saying “it would be abhorrent” to hold the young man in custody for years while waiting for a trial.
But Mr Goldberg noted that Negrea could well be sentenced to a longer jail term than the wait for a trial would be if he was found guilty of the alleged crimes.
