Vic ice dealer incited officer for address
A drug trafficker has admitted to inciting a Victorian police officer to give him the address of a client who he threatened to kill over an unpaid ice debt.
Police allege Dean Murphy, 39, of Seddon, was supplying the police officer with the drug ice in exchange for information, including possible police investigations, documents tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates Court show.
Murphy told his de facto partner on April 18 last year he was going to kill one of his customers.
He then sent a text to a police officer's fiancee asking for the address of the customer's wife, court documents show.
The next day, he sent three more text messages asking for the address.
Murphy on Monday pleaded guilty to threatening to kill and inciting a police officer to commit an offence under the Police Regulation Act.
He also pleaded guilty to trafficking a drug of dependence and perverting the course of justice, but pleaded not guilty to a string of other drug offences, weapons offences and charges of handling stolen goods.
Police allege Murphy's drug trafficking business, run out of an automotive workshop, was protected by the co-operation of the former police officer.
"Without the involvement of (the police officer), Murphy's drug trafficking would have been subject to police investigations," documents tendered in court say.
"(The officer's) financial reward for his involvement came in the form of drug payments."
Co-accused Jamie McNally, 35, of Tarneit, pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice and two drug offences.
McNally, who is on bail, faces a directions hearing in the Victorian County Court on Tuesday.
Murphy was remanded in custody to face the magistrates court again on September 18.
