NAMED: A list of the Territory’s drug dealers

FROM Dark Web drug pushers to a ‘family man’ with a side hustle bringing 100lb of cannabis into the NT, these are some of the drug dealers who plied their trade in the Territory before the law finally caught up. Find out who is on THE LIST

• More Territory drug dealers named and shamed

FROM Dark Web drug pushers to a ‘family man’ with a side hustle bringing 100lb of cannabis into the NT, these are some of the drug dealers who plied their trade in the Territory before the law finally caught up. Find out who is on THE LIST

From Dark Web drug pushers to a ‘family man’ with a side hustle bringing 100lb of cannabis into the NT, below are some of the drug dealers who plied their trade in the Territory before the law finally caught up

AARON PLANT: USED THE DARK WEB TO SOURCE SMORGASBORD OF DRUGS

IN November last year, tech savvy drug dealer Aaron Plant pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Darwin to buying and selling 12 different kinds of illicit drugs to feed his own habit.

The court heard the 20-year-old bought the drugs on the dark web after forming a heroin addiction that saw him shooting up twice a day while still just a teenager.

He bought three fake identification cards from the dark web and used them to open three PO Boxes at the Casuarina Post Office, and then had dozens of packages containing a range of drugs sent to them between March and May this year – also purchased from the dark web.

Police intercepted seven of the packages, found to contain heroin, meth and morphine.

They then searched Plant’s home in Darwin, where he lived with his parents, and found quantities of MDMA, cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine, ketamine and DMT, as well as a range of other unidentified prescription pills, none of which Plant had a prescription for.

Plant told the court he learned to use the dark web “in an afternoon” by “watching a YouTube video”.

MOHAMMAD QADIR: SOLD CANNABIS INTO REMOTE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY

TAXI driver Mohammad Qadir was found guilty by a Supreme Court jury in December after pleading not guilty to supplying cannabis to residents of a remote Indigenous community.

Mohammad Qadir runs from the Supreme Court after the second day of his trial

During his trial, the jury heard Qadir, 31, supplied drugs to Gunbalanya residents by leaving them on one side of Cahills Crossing, forcing his dealer to canoe across croc-infested waters to get them.

But before he could be sentenced, his lawyer Jon Tippett QC, told the court his client’s father was in hospital and the case would have to be adjourned until arrangements could be made for his father’s care.

Mr Tippett said Qadir was his father’s full-time carer and that all of his other family members had “abandoned” him.

He is now due to be sentenced on February 28.

DECLAN ATHOL REID: JAILED FOR SIX MONTHS OVER $250,000 DRUG IMPORT SCHEME

DARWIN man Declan Athol Reid copped a three-and-a-half year prison term, suspended after six months, in January after pleading guilty to importing $250,000 of ecstasy into the NT.

The court heard the 23-year-old used the dark web to buy IDs he then used to open four post boxes at Casuarina Post Office and then had drugs sent from overseas to himself.

Before a national operation aimed at cracking down on dark web drug trafficking in December 2019, Reid bought a range of illicit drugs such as cocaine, ketamine, LSD and more than 1.6kg of MDMA.

“You were able to purchase the drugs using Bitcoin,” Justice Jenny Blokland said in sentencing.

“The drugs were cheap on the internet and you either used them yourself or you supplied to others, who, the court was told, were your close friends and associates.”

But Justice Blokland said Reid had since made a significant effort to turn his life around, after completing an 18-week residential rehab program while on remand.

“That is very much to your credit,” she said.

MICHAEL SCOTT WILSON ANDERSON: ‘FAMILY MAN’ LOCKED UP AFTER BRINGING 100LB OF CANNABIS INTO THE TOP END

“GOOD family man” Michael Scott Wilson Anderson was jailed for at least seven years in early February after being found guilty of importing “roughly 100lb or more of cannabis” into Darwin along with his partner in the criminal enterprise.

The court heard the 29-year-old and his co-accused, Jason Taylor, sourced the cannabis from a supplier in Adelaide and sold it in Darwin for $4500 a pound, sharing a $1000 profit on each pound between them.

In sentencing, Justice Judith Kelly said sometimes the men’s supplier would deliver the drugs to Darwin and at other times they would travel to Adelaide to stock up.

“You would bring back five or six boxes on a run, each containing eight to 10 pounds of cannabis, sometimes 12,” she said.

“Not long before you were arrested, Jason Taylor was stopped outside Katherine and found to be carrying approximately $310,000 which was the proceeds of the sale of cannabis.”

In jailing Wilson Anderson for 10 years with a non-parole period of seven years, Justice Kelly said cannabis “does a lot of damage”, particularly in Aboriginal communities.

JAKE HILLMAN: REPEAT OFFENDER CAUGHT WITH SIX TIMES COMMERCIAL QUANTITY OF HORSE TRANQUILLISER

SERIAL drug peddler Jake Hillman pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court after being “caught effectively red handed” with more than six times the commercial quantity of horse tranquilliser.

The 25-year-old was jailed for two and a half years, with a non-parole period of one year and nine months after Chief Justice Michael Grant labelled him as a “recidivist drug offender”.

The court heard police spotted Hillman driving on Daly Street in May last year and knowing he was already disqualified after an earlier drug driving charge, pulled him over for a test.

After he tested positive for meth and cannabis, police raided his home later that same day and found 0.62g of ketamine, 22.67g of MDMA and 10g of ice, with some of the drugs hidden inside an empty deodorant can.

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In sentencing, Chief Justice Grant noted the offending came on the heels of a string of earlier drug convictions including a bust in which police seized almost $60,000 in ill gotten cash.

“It’s obvious that you didn’t learn your lesson from the very lenient disposition made by the court at that time and the structures that were put in place for your rehabilitation,” he said.

“Unfortunately, as you conceded in this process, you have had a number of opportunities for rehabilitation in the past including a court supervised opportunity and you’ve squandered those opportunities.

“You have completed some courses with the alcohol and other drugs service with the prison while you’ve been on remand on this occasion but the court can have little confidence that you will remain abstinent having regard to your track record.”

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