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 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.

ACU top dancer, and was studied employed nursing dd as an at only “played a limited role” But they found Stevens had

” e-commerce manager for and had good prospects for re- Sneakerboy 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. getting g

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