CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
A man was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by the Perth District Court yesterday (30 January, 2025) after he tried to traffic drugs while in a WA detention centre.
The District Court has ordered the man, 30, serve 18 months in custody before he will be released on a recognisance order to be of good behaviour.
The man smuggled a variety of border-controlled drugs, contained in two small packages, into the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre on 21 November, 2022. Australian Border Force (ABF) officers observed the man accepting the packages from a visitor. A subsequent search revealed quantities of illicit drugs - cannabis (60.4 grams), metha...