Melbourne chiropractor Asher Sharp pleads guilty to importing ketamine, GHB and dealing drugs

A Melbourne chiropractor was done slinging cocaine and Xanax after police thwarted a plot to import drugs via the Netherlands.

A Melbourne chiropractor’s double life as a party drug kingpin unravelled after he was pinched importing ketamine and GHB.

Asher Sharp, 35, was sentenced in the County Court on Thursday to an 18-month suspended jail term after pleading guilty import a marketable quantity of drugs.

Sharp, who also pleaded guilty to trafficking Xanax, imported ketamine and GHB in three separate consignments via the Netherlands and Nigeria in August 2021.

A consignment of drugs was found hidden in a package marked as aloe vera water and addressed to Sharp’s alias ‘Aster Sharo’.

Authorities seized and examined the consignments then raided Sharp’s Bonbeach home on December 28.

Police searched the home and seized testosterone, 1,4 butanediol and a mobile phone which contained links to the Aster Sharo alias.

Investigators analysed the phone further and found messages which indicated Sharp peddled cocaine, Xanax and 1,4 butanediol between April and September 2021.

The court heard Sharp’s messages to multiple customers included drug slang terms ‘Juice’, coke, ‘MLs’ and Xannies or bricks for Xanax.

The communication also included references to drug amounts, cost and payment arrangements, the court was told.

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“Got anymore bricks? A mate wants 20 …,” a customer texted Sharp.

“I’ll have a look when I get back. Would you want anymore on the order,” Sharp responded.

“Yeah probably haha, umm yeah I’ll go another ten f--k it,” the customer said.

The customer messaged Sharp again later on.

“What’s going on you drunk? Have you got any bricks?,” the customer said.

“Haha Nar not anymore. Four days sober. What About you? Nar nothing atm,” Sharp said.

“Four days sober … good work! Can you order some for me?,” the customer asked.

“Sorry thought I wrote back. Yeh mate how many? But if they don’t come or something stuffs up, it’s money that’s being lost,” Sharp responded.

Another customer who texted Sharp asked if the dealer had “zanys to sell”.

Sharp told the customer he had Xanax and the cost was $140 for 20, $180 for 30 or $300 for a bottle.

The customer ordered a bottle and told Sharp he’d be at his Bonbeach home after 7pm to collect.

Police also discovered evidence Sharp was part of exclusive Signal Messenger drug groups including ‘Oxys/opiates MELB’.

The group description read: “This group is only for people who are vouched and locat (sic) to Melbourne to buy and sell oxys, and other opiates”.

The court heard Sharp was a talented chiropractor but took a break from the profession after he was charged.

Sharp, who plans to resume his chiropractor career, also suffered a serious shoulder injury which he said he “took a shit load of pills” to manage the pain.

Judge Stewart Bayles said “drugs were a scourge in the community” but spared Sharp an immediate jail term.

Sharp, who must be of good behaviour for three years, was also handed a community correction order.