A BALLARAT man who was on parole when police caught him trafficking methamphetamine has been jailed for more than four years.
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Anthony Scott, 45, pleaded guilty to 23 charges including drug trafficking, firearms and multiple driving offences in Ballarat Magistrates Court this morning.
The court heard Mr Scott was on parole when he committed the offences between September 2011 and October 4, 2012, the day he was arrested.
Ballarat police Senior Constable Aimee Heal told the court police discovered Mr Scott was using the shed at the back of a property in Cobden Street Ballarat to distribute "large trafficking amounts" of methamphetamine.
Senior Constable Heal said in other incidents, Scott was intercepted by police at a known drug dealing residence in North Melbourne where he resisted arrest.
On July 6, 2012 he was pulled over on the Western Highway in what police described as a "convoy" of cars where a search found $7,500 in cash, believed to be the proceeds of crime.
Magistrate Jack Vandersteen sentenced Mr Scott to four years and two months jail, with a non-parole period of three-and-a-half years.
