BRA DRUG SMUGGLE EXPOSED

A FORMER stripper caught trying to smuggle $150,000 worth of drugs in her bra on a flight to Hobart has been jailed for at least 16 months.

Sydney woman Alexandra Rose Kobelke, 26, trafficked large amounts of ice and cocaine to Tasmania over a 13-month period, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars to her home state, the court heard.

She was arrested at Sydney Airport in January as she was about to board a flight to Hobart, after making 13 trips between NSW and Tasmania.

Yesterday, Supreme Court of Tasmania Chief Justice Alan Blow said Kobelke was a worker, not an entrepreneur or in control of the large-scale trafficking operation. He said she was paid “much less than she was promised in cash” for trafficking the drugs, which she wrapped in vacuum packs to hide their smell.

Chief Justice Blow said Kobelke had pleaded guilty at an early stage, noting she had lived an “unfortunate life”. He said her mother died when she was 12 because of long-term damage caused by drug abuse, started using drugs herself at age 13, and left her father’s home at 15 because of problems with her stepmother.

Chief Justice Blow said she was a daily user of cocaine at the time of her arrest.

Kobelke pleaded guilty to trafficking in a controlled substance. Chief Justice Blow sentenced her to two years and eight months in jail, backdated to March this year from when she first went into custody.

She will be eligible for parole after serving 16 months.