Sea No Creatures dance night organiser DJ Bazerk caught dealing drugs in a Malvern street
Sea No Creatures dance boss DJ Bazerk was renowned for his tunes until he began mixing it in the drug world. He went from spinning discs behind the decks to spinning out on drugs.
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A techno DJ ended up in the big house after a random police patrol uncovered him dealing a mixed bag of drugs in a busy Malvern street.
Gillian Jacques Bazerque, who spins under the name of DJ Bazerk and ran the Sea No Creatures dance nights, had to spend time behind bars instead of behind the decks after he was nabbed selling a smorgasbord of substances.
The 29-year-old from Clyde North also admitted drink-driving as a P-plater, driving unlicensed and twice being behind the wheel of unregistered cars.
Bazerque pleaded guilty to a range of drug and driving offences at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
The court heard police were patrolling the High St, Malvern area at 10.30am on December 11 last year when they saw Bazerque and a female acting suspiciously outside a house.
They stopped, and as Bazerque was wanted on warrants for failing to turn up to court, he was arrested and searched.
Officers found 18.3g of 1-4 Bute, 0.28g of cannabis, one LSD tablet, 1.76g of ice, 20 ecstasy tablets, 13.76g of cocaine, 17.69g of amphetamines, scales, zip lock bags and a ‘tick’ notebook.
Bazerque admitted the drugs were his and he was intending to sell them, and he was remanded in custody, spending 53 days in jail before being released on bail.
He was also caught drink-driving as a P-plater in Glen Waverley in an unregistered car in April 2016 and was nabbed again in an unregistered car with no driving licence in St Kilda in May 2019.
Bazerque’s defence lawyer Michael Challinger said his client had started to “flirt” with drugs a few years ago when he was in a toxic relationship.
He said he then started selling drugs to sustain his own habit and “bought in bulk, exchanged with friends” and then on-sold the rest.
He said the time he had spent behind bars was “a wake-up call” and he “did not want to end up like that”, referring to long-term criminals.
Mr Challinger said Bazerque was a carpenter who could get back into the trade when he got his licence back and he has now “started to pull his socks up”.
He said the time he had already served in custody was an appropriate penalty, to be followed by a drug and mental health treatment community corrections order.
Magistrate Victoria Campbell adjourned the case to allow him to be assessed for a corrections order.
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