Cocaine dealing cop returns to court but avoids further penalty

Cocaine dealing cop Daniel Keelan has avoided any further punishment after pleading guilty to a string of less serious offences.

Former NT cop Daniel Keelan pleaded guilty to dealing cocaine to a fellow officer and stealing his police issued Glock handgun.

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COCAINE dealing cop Daniel Keelan has avoided any further punishment after pleading guilty to a string of less serious offences following his jailing for three months in the Supreme Court on Monday.

Keelan pleaded guilty in the Darwin Local Court on Friday to drug possession and other offences relating to the storage of his stolen police issue Glock in a bedside drawer, the theft of which was also dealt with on Monday.

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Judge Dick Wallace convicted Keelan on all counts without adding any further punishment.

He was ordered to pay $900 in compulsory victims levies and is due to be released in July.

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