Werribee drug dealer Darcy Charleston pleads guilty to trafficking cocaine and MDMA

A Melbourne construction worker who spent his entire weekends buzzed on cocaine sold drugs to fund his “expensive habit”.

Darcy Charleston pleaded guilty to trafficking MDMA. Facebook.

A Melbourne construction worker who was done dealing cocaine and MDMA has avoided further jail time.

Darcy Charleston, 25, was sentenced in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday to time served – 34 days – after pleading guilty to trafficking MDMA and cocaine.

Charleston was nabbed with drugs, cash and ammo at his dad’s Werribee home on November 18 last year.

Investigators stormed Charleston’s bedroom and seized 269 grams of MDMA, cocaine, $3525, gun ammunition, scales and “small baggies”.

Police discovered an estimated 200 ecstasy pills stashed in Charleston’s closet, the court was told.

Investigators also spotted Charleston “closing messages” on his phone after raiding the property.

The court heard police seized the phone and instructed Charleston to unlock his device but he refused.

A Westgate Divisional Response Unit member later discovered messages “indicative of (Charleston) selling drugs to associates”.

Charleston, on bail for driving offences, was arrested, charged and remanded in custody.

Charleston, who has no trafficking priors, told police the ecstasy pills had been in his closet for “a week and a bit” but the pills “did not work”.

Charleston also claimed the white powder (cocaine) was “Panadol, flour and other unknown cutting agents” and he got the cash through “work and selling car parts”.

Charleston works in civil construction and his drug dealing came as a “complete surprise” to his family, the court was told.

The defence submitted Charleston used cocaine “two to three days” through the week and “constantly” from Friday to Sunday.

The court heard Charleston trafficked MDMA to bankroll his coke habit.

“It was an expensive habit,” the defence submitted.

Magistrate Olivia Trumble said trafficking ecstasy is a “serious offence”.

“Cocaine is very difficult to manage as an addiction,” she said.

“It’s very difficult to shake.”

Charleston was also convicted and handed an 18-month community correction order.

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