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Former St Kilda star Sam Fisher had lost his sense of identity after retiring from AFL and was struggling with money when his drug usage spiralled out of control.
He felt displaced as he battled to find employment and his plans to secure an income through a property development collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was in this context that Fisher became involved in a plot to smuggle cocaine and methamphetamine between Victoria and Western Australia, his barrister Dermott Dann told a Melbourne court on Monday.
Fisher sat in the dock at the back of the County Court ahead of a prison sentence after he admitted six drug offences.
The 41-year-old is facing more than five years in jail after pleading guilty to trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine, cocaine and 1,4-Butanediol, and three counts of drug possession.
Fisher (pictured outside court in Melbourne on Monday) pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine from Melbourne to Western Australia
Fisher was arrested by police in May 2022 for trafficking 996g of meth and 82g of cocaine from Melbourne to Western Australia, prosecutor Melissa Mahady told the court.
She said Fisher had picked up a new rangehood from Harvey Norman in Moorabbin and then delivered it to a Melbourne patisserie owned by his co-accused Julien Morvan's father, with the drugs inside.
The drugs were seized by WA police on April 20, 2022, along with a second parcel bound for Melbourne with $129,000 inside.
When police searched Fisher's home
