RACV Cape Schanck pastry chef jailed for dealing, possessing drugs
By day he cooked pastries for punters at the RACV Cape Schanck resort, but by night he dealt with ingredients of a different kind. Now the “talented” chef is being served up prison porridge.
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A Cape Schanck RACV resort chef who dealt GHB, possessed an array of other drugs and crashed his car while high on ice has been served up a stint behind bars.
And the magistrate dished out a massive bake to the “talented” pastry chef, telling him if he continued to use and deal drugs he risked throwing away his promising cooking career.
Dylan Smith pleaded guilty to 15 drug possession, trafficking, driving, proceeds of crime and court order breach charges at Frankston Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
The 27-year-old was already serving a community corrections order – also for dealing drugs – when he was caught.
The court heard at about 1am on April 25 this year, a police patrol intercepted Smith’s car in Rosebud.
He appeared nervous and was stuttering but denied there were drugs in his vehicle, even though officers could see a bottle of GHB in the footwell.
They also found a bag of ice in his underpants and a spilt bottle of GHB on the back floor of the car, the court was told.
He told them he had poured it out when he knew he was going to be caught.
Smith admitted possessing the drugs, and when his phone showed a plethora of dealing messages, he accepted he had been trafficking as well.
In June last year in Rye, he tested positive for ice while driving with GHB and cannabis oil in his car, and in August he was found asleep behind the wheel in Moorooduc, again proving positive for ice, with more meth, GHB and drug paraphernalia scattered around the vehicle.
A month later he was driving in McCrae when he veered across the road, hit another car and smashed through a fence before again testing positive for ice.
His defence lawyer said the trafficking was to pay for his personal drug habit, which was a form of self-medication for his depression.
He said Smith, who was now living in Cape Schanck, was remorseful.
Magistrate Gerard Lethbridge said not only was his drug dealing dangerous, so was his “scandalous” driving.
He said Smith was “miles in front of others (drug users)” in life because of his work skills and family assistance, but he needed to be punished as well as given a chance at rehabilitation.
“He continued to use, continued to traffick, continued to endanger the community with his driving,” Mr Lethbridge said.
“For someone with his talent and family support it is a real tragedy.
“I have no pleasure in sentencing him to a term of imprisonment, it has all ended very badly indeed.”
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Smith was jailed for three months, minus 40 days he has already served on remand.
When he is released he must do a 15-month community corrections order with drug and mental health treatment, as well as 150 hours of unpaid work.
He was also disqualified from driving for 12 months.