Blayne Alec King has been sentenced for his role in ecstasy trafficking on February 25

A second man who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking after being caught at Hobart Airport with a bag of ecstasy tablets has been sentenced.

Hobart Airport. Picture: MATT THOMPSON

A MAN who had a bag of 224 ecstasy tablets in his pocket at Hobart Airport on February 23, has received a suspended jail sentence and an order to perform community work.

Blayne Alec King, 24, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Hobart today to trafficking in a controlled substance.

The court heard King went to Hobart Airport about 4am on February 25 with Samuel Adrian Webb, 20, and another man, and Webb tried to buy a ticket to Melbourne with cash.

Crown prosecutor Anna Norton said airline workers called police because the three men were “acting suspiciously”.

Ms Norton said police found 19 ecstasy pills in Webb’s underpants. She said King volunteered a snap lock bag containing five pills and police found a bag of 224 orange and blue pills in one of his pockets.

She said no drugs were found on the third man.

Ms Norton said the prosecution accepted Webb gave the bag to King who concealed it.

It was not asserted that King planned to sell any of the pills.

King’s lawyer Claire Flockhart said her client was remorseful.

Justice Robert Pearce said King was overcoming some difficulty in his family and personal life at the time and had no prior convictions under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

He sentenced King to three months’ jail, wholly suspended for 18 months, and ordered him to do 49 hours of community service work.

Justice Gregory Geason last week sentenced Webb to one year’s jail, wholly suspended for three years, and ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service work.