Former federal police officer William Noel Wheatley has avoided jail after being found guilty of possessing 200 grams of methamphetamine (meth), valued at $200,000, and he is also facing charges of stealing $450,000 of Cryptocurrency.

More serious charges against William Wheatley were dropped with no reason given and key evidence has been hidden from the courts.

The matter has all the hallmarks of a cover-up by senior AFP officers in collusion with the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions.

Even the sentencing magistrate raised very serious questions about the secrecy surrounding the matter that should be investigated.

The SMH reported on Tuesday (12/11/24) in an article titled “‘Shrouded in mystery’: AFP officer caught with 200 grams of meth avoids jail”:

A former Australian Federal Police officer has avoided prison despite being found with a quantity of drugs 50 times higher than the threshold for trafficking, in a case a magistrate said was “shrouded in mystery”.

William Noel Wheatley, 46, faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court charged over the seizure of 200 grams of methamphetamine while he was a serving police officer.

Wheatley, from Kensington in Melbourne’s inner north-west, was ordered in February to stand trial in the County Court on multiple charges, including drug trafficking and possession, before the matter was sent back to the lower court, where he pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

A magistrate said how and why the meth ended up in Wheatley’s possession, in December 2022, largely remained a mystery.

Despite the volume of drugs that was found, the court heard last week that Wheatley was only being prosecuted for possession, a crime which carries a significantly smaller penalty than trafficking.

“This case is as notable for what the court has not been told as for what the court has been told,” magistrate Costas Kilias said.

The court heard that before his arrest, Wheatley worked in the fraud area of cybercrime and the anti-child exploitation team, a joint unit with Victoria Police. During last week’s hearing, the court was told Wheatley was no longer with the AFP.

Kilias said he had been given no information about where the drugs came from or how long they had been in Wheatley’s possession while he was with the AFP.

“This case is shrouded in mystery in some respects. Despite the mystery and shrouding and the unknown elements of this case, I cannot speculate on what might fill those shadows, those voids, those blanks.

Kilias said the quantity of drugs seized was 201.3 grams, an amount about 50 times higher than the trafficable quantity by law.

He sentenced Wheatley to a 15-month community corrections order with 150 hours of unpaid community work. (Click here to read more)

I published the below video on the 12/11/24. (Click here to watch the video on the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel)

The AFP and Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions have a lot of questions to answer about why they dropped the drug supply charges and why all the evidence and full story wasn’t tendered to court.

The SMH article quoted from above did not mention that William Wheatley is also facing fraud charges as per below:

At the time of writing this article the only old media who have reported William Wheatley’s sentencing are Nine’s The Age and The SMH websites. Why have all the other old media failed to report an important public interest story of federal police corruption?

William Noel Wheatley is also facing charges for stealing $450,000 in cryptocurrency

In February (16/2/24) News.com published an article titled “Australian Federal Police officer William Wheatley to fight crypto fortune theft allegations” which says:

Australian Federal Police officer William Wheatley appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday, pleading not guilty to using information obtained in his role as a public officer to benefit himself, theft and dealing with the proceeds of crime.

Two further charges of dishonestly obtaining property, and dealing with the proceeds of crime were struck out by Magistrate Malcolm Thomas during the four day committal hearing.

The raid was conducted as part of Operation Viridian, a joint AFP and Victoria Police investigation targeting drug trafficking through the postal service.

Giving evidence, Cyber Crime Squad Detective Sergeant Deon Achtypis said investigators initially believed an associate of the crime syndicate had transferred the bitcoin, then worth about $450,000, after the raid.

Today the same amount of bitcoin would be worth more than $6.3 million. (Click here to read more)

To my knowledge the cryptocurrency theft charge against William Wheatley has not yet been to trial.

William Wheatley has had a lot of luck having charges dropped or downgraded.

William Noel Wheatley – February 2024 – Outside court for his fraud charges

Closing arguments

Some on social media say the 200 grams of meth is not worth $200,000. But one thing is for certain and that is 200 grams is not for personal use and William Wheatley should have faced the more serious charge of drug trafficking like anyone else would.

As I say in the above video you only have to look at his picture, above taken in February outside court, and you can see the smug look on his face because he knows he’s protected and he isn’t worried about the criminal charges.

The reason the AFP and Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions are so blatant in protecting corrupt police officers is because they know the politicians won’t do anything because they don’t care.

Hopefully the Federal Police will be questioned about William Wheatley’s favourable treatment the next time they are before the Senate Estimates.

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