Raid on robbery victim Jacky Ong’s Keysborough home nets drugs stash, weapons cache
THIS victim of an armed robbery ended up behind bars himself after police spotted a cache of weapons and drugs while they were interviewing him about the attack.
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A FOUR-time trafficker will spend another four months behind bars after being caught with a cocktail of drugs and a cache of illegal weapons in his Keysborough home.
Unluckily for him, his crimes were detected after he was the victim of an armed robbery.
Jacky Ong, 24, pleaded guilty to an array of weapons and drug charges and court breaches at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
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The court heard about 5pm on April 6 this year police were called to an armed robbery where Ong had been attacked.
They went to his Keysborough home to take a statement from him, but alert officers also spotted an imitation firearm, cannabis and some white powder inside his house.
This information was then passed onto the Caulfield Divisional Response Unit, and on May 3 they conducted a raid.
They found bags of ice, cannabis, heroin, ecstasy, Xanax, a large amount of cash, bullets, knives, daggers, Samurai swords and the fake gun.
They also found several phones and a laptop used for selling drugs and some tools, which were believed to have been stolen goods.
The court heard this was Ong’s fourth drug trafficking crime, and he was currently undergoing corrections orders for similar offending.
Ong’s defence lawyer said he was the victim of the armed robbery and had stockpiled the weapons to defend himself if the attackers decided to come back.
He said Ong had a habit which was being maintained by selling drugs, and since he was remanded he had been sober.
Magistrate Jack Vandersteen said while the trafficking was at the lower end of the scale, selling drugs to maintain an addiction created problems for others in the community.
He said failing to comply with corrections orders, especially by breaching with similar trafficking offending, meant more jail was required.
Ong has already served time in custody and must spend another four months and 17 days in prison.
Upon release he will be placed on a 12-month community corrections order.
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