Geelong Don't miss out on the headlines from Geelong. Followed categories will be added to My News. Alex Urquhart picked up the phone; his mother on the other end of the line.
He was sitting in the Metropolitan Remand Centre, having been arrested four days earlier after being nabbed swerving across Pakington St in the early hours of June 1, 2022. Police noticed the back of the BMW had been fishtailing and intercepted him at Clarence St. A search of Urquhart and the car revealed a pocket knife, ice and heroin, four sets of car keys and more than $4000 in cash.
Knuckle duster and two knives located during the police search. Picture: Supplied/OPP He was swiftly arrested and, after giving a no comment interview, was remanded in custody. In a recorded phone call from prison on June 5, 2022, Urquhart told his mother to have an associate retrieve the money he kept in a grey Volkswagen Golf – it would be enough to pay a surety and get him out, he told her.
“Oh that’s a safe place for it,” his mother replied, according to court documents. Urquhart asked if she remembered what he paid for his Mercedes, telling her there was “three times that” in the Volkswagen. The only catch was police had already searched the trafficker’s home.
Earlier this year, Urquhart was jailed for a maximum of seven years and four months after pleading guilty to charges including trafficking in commercial quantities of ice and 1,4 butanediol, with a non-parole period of five years and six months. .