By Carl Pfieffer

A meth dealer already on a suspended sentence for drug trafficking will spend six months in jail after police found a quantity of the drug hidden inside a screwdriver handle and $3650 cash in a bum bag.

Aaron Senge, 44, was arrested on January 31 after police found five clip seal bags containing 0.2 grams of meth each, as well as cash and digital scales in the bum bag.

The Northern Territory Supreme Court heard Senge had supplied meth to a person known as SH over the course of the previous week, with each purchase worth $150.

Justice Jenny Blokland said Senge had a “very lengthy history of drug offending”.

“Much of it involves possession-style offences, but some involving commercial and traffickable amounts, and indeed, supplying certain amounts,” she said.  

The court heard Senge received a suspended sentence for drug trafficking in October, 2018, which still has around two years and four months to run.

Justice Blokland said Senge had been “very polite with his dealings with the court, of which there have been many”.

She sentenced Senge to six months in prison, with a release date at the end of September.

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