Ex-stripper trafficker is freed
AN ex-stripper jailed for her role in a large-scale illegal cannabis operation in Victoria has won a bid for freedom.
Carley Stevens, 26, was sentenced in the County Court on February 19 to nine months’ prison after pleading guilty to trafficking cannabis. The former nursing student (pictured) was busted at Melbourne Airport in March 2017 after police raided the Bentleigh home she shared with her partner.
Investigators seized 15kg of dried cannabis valued at $200,000, cash, names and addresses of suspected customers and drug packaging.
Victoria Police detectives found more than 1kg of cannastood” what she was getting g bis had been sold on the dark herself into. web between December 2016 “She did so in order to sup- and March 2017. port a lifestyle, rather than an n
Stevens worked as a tableaddiction,” they said. top dancer, studied nursing at
ACU and was employed as an only “played a limited role” e-commerce manager dd”for and But had they good found prospects Stevens for had reSneakerboy at the time of the habilitation. offending. Stevens was resentenced to
In a bid to have her sen128 days in prison, counted as tence reduced, Stevens told the time served, and a two-year Court of Appeal she had been community corrections order. “in the grip of drug addiction” She must undergo drug coun- when she chose to go along selling, mental health treat- with her boyfriend’s drug ment and complete 100 hours scheme. But justices Karin of community work.
Emerton and Mark Weinburg Stevens was also sentenced said Stevens was “an intellito pay a $500 fine for dealing gent woman who well under- with the proceeds of crime.
A Wodonga man holding a VB can has become an Aussie hero after crashing a news interview to share his thoughts on the NSW-Victoria border closure.
Interrupting an interview by Channel 9 journalist Reid Butler, the man slips in from the side, beer can in his hand.
“Mate, I live here, and you try to lock me out of bloody Wodonga and Albury? How am I supposed to get to Centrelink?” he says
The man explains there is no Centrelink office in Wodonga, Victoria, only in neighbouring Albury, which is in NSW. “That’s very bad, aye,” he says.