Bo Austin Moorcroft was caught in a police operation targeting drug dealers in border town

The 25-year-old had been caught up in a police operation targeting the dealers he was sourcing his own drugs from.

The 25-year-old pleaded guilty in Toowoomba District Court to supplying a dangerous drug in Goondiwindi.

A Goondiwindi man caught supplying drugs by police targeting other drug traffickers in the town has been spared actual jail time.

Bo Austin Moorcroft had been caught up in the police operation targeting drug dealers from whom he was sourcing his own meth, Toowoomba District Court heard.

The then 23-year-old was found to have actually supplied meth on three occasion and another three he had offered to supply, the last being in July 2020 and he had been on bail since, Crown prosecutor Ellen Fletcher told the court.

The now 25-year-old pleaded guilty to six counts of supplying a dangerous drug and to possessing drug paraphernalia.

His barrister Frank Martin said his client had since paid for drug tests which had all been negative and he was working.

Moorcroft had recently become a father and his partner and child were in court supporting him, he said.

Judge Alexander Horneman-Wren SC noted Moorcroft had sourced drugs from dealers to support his own habit of the time.

“You were involved at the bottom of the chain,” he told Moorcroft.

Noting he was already on probation, Judge Horneman-Wren sentenced Moorcroft to 12 months jail but suspended the whole term for 18 months.