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April 18, 2018 / 12:08 PM
/ AP

CANBERRA, Australia -- A Canadian woman broke down in tears in an Australian court on Wednesday when she was sentenced to eight years in prison for her part in an attempt to smuggle cocaine worth $16 million into Sydney in luggage aboard a luxury cruise ship.
Melina Roberge, 24, told the New South Wales state District Court that she risked a life sentence in an Australian prison for the opportunity to take selfies "in exotic locations and post them on Instagram to receive 'likes' and attention" during a $17,000 vacation she couldn't afford.
Three Canadians have pleaded guilty to smuggling 95 kilograms of the drug in suitcases aboard the MS Sea Princess during a seven-week cruise in 2016 from Britain to Ireland, the United States, Bermuda, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile then Australia.
Roberge was sentenced to a non-parole period of 4 years and 9 months in prison before she is likely to be deported to Canada.
Judge Kate Traill condemned Roberge's motivation for crime as a "very sad indictment" on her age group who "seek to attain such a vacuous existence where how many 'likes' they receive are their currency."
"She was seduced by lifestyle and the opportunity to post glamorous Instagram photos from around the world," the judge said. "She wanted to be the envy of others. I doubt she is now."
Roberge's accomplice with whom she shared a cabin, Isabelle Lagace, 29, was sentenced in November to 7 ½ years in prison backdated to their arrest. Lagace will also likely be deported after serving a non-parole period of 4 ½ years.
Police with sniffer dogs found 35 kilograms of cocaine in their cabin on Aug. 28, 2016, when the liner, operated by California-based Princess Cruises, berthed in Sydney.
Lagace told the court she took part to settle a debt in Canada.
Roberge did not admit her guilt until days before her trial was due to begin in February.
Traill said Roberge was recruited by a wealthy Canadian benefactor, whom Roberge described in court as her "sugar daddy" but never identified for fear of repercussions for her family in Canada, with the lure of a free vacation.
The third accomplice, Andre Tamin, 65, will be sentenced in October. He was caught with 60 kilograms of the drug in his cabin.
In an affidavit admitted to the court, Roberge said that at the time she was "a stupid young woman" who was governed by superficial goals.
"I have devastated so many people in the process," she wrote.
The court heard Roberge met her "sugar daddy" in 2015, and they began an intimate relationship while she worked as an escort for him. He invited her to work as an escort in May 2016 during a trip to Morocco, where he first invited her to join drug-smuggling voyage.
Traill said the then 22-year-old was "there to look pretty," acting as a decoy to the drug dealing below deck.
Roberge told the court she suspected drugs were brought aboard at Peru, because of increased activity during a stopover there.
The judge said Roberge was also motivated by profit. She was promised the ticket, 4,000 euros ($5,000) in spending money plus more cash once she returned home.
The U.S. Department of Homelands Security and the Canada Border Services Agency identified the trio as high-risk passengers among the 1,800 on board. The haul was a record for cocaine smuggled in luggage through an Australian air or sea port.

First published on April 18, 2018 / 12:08 PM

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Canadians Isabelle Lagacé, 28 and Melina Roberge, 22 were on a round-the-world cruise when police arrested them and found 95 kg of cocaine in suitcases
THE porn star past of one of the two women charged with smuggling £17million worth of cocaine into Australia on a luxury cruise ship has today been revealed.
Canadians Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, travelled round the world while allegedly carrying "commercial quantities" of the Class A drug before being detained in Sydney.
Today it has emerged that one of the detained women, Isabelle Lagacé, has a secret past as a full frontal porn model.
Racy images of Lagacé feature on a website called Flashy Babes and show her in lingerie shots.
The second, Melina Roberge, has been described to DailyMail.com by her former boyfriend as a “superficial woman always turned on by money and on the look-out for a sugar daddy”.
People close to Roberge said she was “all about money, money, money” and a former boyfriend called Michael said: “She was a flirt and moreover she was just a superficial young woman.
“Melina was lovely and attractive, but she wanted money and people who had money.”
“It was all about money with her and she was dating older men too because they had the cars and the power to give her the lifestyle she wanted badly.
“She just wanted the best things but as far as I knew she never worked for them and had a steady job.”
The luxury cruise, costing around £11,400, started in Britain and toured the US and South America, including Colombia and Peru, before sailing to New Zealand and then Australia.
The haul was the largest seizure in Australia of narcotics carried by passengers of a cruise ship or airliner, Australian Border Force commander Tim Fitzgerald said.
The three did not enter pleas when they were charged in the Sydney Central Local Court with importing a commercial quantity of cocaine. They face life sentences if convicted.
They will remain in custody until their next court appearance on October 26.
Roberge and Lagacé’s social media accounts are awash with exotic snaps from the alleged drug run including pictures of their pair drinking from coconuts on a white sand beach.
Other posts show the duo riding quad bikes through a desert, hiking in Peru and exploring beach caves in their bikinis.
The suspects boarded the ship in Southampton. Police are investigating whether they boarded with the drugs or sourced them from one of several South American ports the ship visited on its way to Australia.
Fitzgerald thanked the U.S. Department of Homelands Security and the Canada Border Services Agency for helping identify the three as "high-risk passengers" among the 1,800 on board.
Fitzgerald alleged 77lbs of cocaine were found in suitcases in a cabin the women shared and 132lbs of the drug were found in the man's luggage in a separate cabin.
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A third cruise ship conspirator has been jailed after a failed plot to smuggle cocaine into Australia with a porn star and an escort.
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A Canadian man has been jailed for at least five years and seven months for smuggling 32kg of pure cocaine into Australia on board a cruise liner.
For about 50 days, Andre Tamine cruised the seas on a multi-country trip bound for Australia while in his cabin sat a clandestine haul worth up to $29 million on the street.
He was joined in the plot by two glamorous young women Melina Roberge, 25, and Isabelle Lagace, 30, as well as another man who disembarked the ship before arriving in Australia.
Roberge, an escort, and Lagace, a porn star, filled their social media accounts with pictures that charted the worldwide trip.
The group boarded the seven-week voyage on the Sea Princess at Dover, England on July 9, 2016, and planned to sail to the US, Bermuda, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle as part of an around the world trip.
Tamine, 65, was supposed to be paid 100,000 euros ($A158,000) for his role in getting it into the country aboard a cruise ship.
He will instead spend at least five years and seven months in prison after his attempt to smuggle the large amount of cocaine was thwarted by authorities upon arrival in Sydney.
He subsequently pleaded guilty to importing a border-controlled drug. NSW District Court Judge Kate Traill, in sentencing Tamine on Tuesday to a maximum of eight years and five months in prison, found he was more than a courier in the importation.
He’d boarded the Sea Princess in England with fellow Canadians Roberge, Lagace and a fourth person, after being offered a role during a trip to Morocco.
The fourth person disembarked in Nova Scotia, leaving Tamine and the women to continue on to Sydney with the cruise making stopovers in countries including Ireland, the United States, Panama and Peru.
When authorities raided the trio’s two cabins when the ship arrived in Sydney, they found 72.6kg of cocaine but Tamine was sentenced for 42.7kg of the drug found in his cabin.
It amounted to 32.1kg of pure cocaine.
Roberge, 25, and Lagace, 30, have also pleaded guilty to their charges and been jailed.
“When we would attend nightclubs together he would introduce me to some of his friends and if I was interested I would spend time with these men,” Roberge said in the documents.
“Sometimes there would be intimacy, but not always. I would receive gifts from them or be taken to restaurants.”
The judge said Tamine was offered more for his involvement than Roberge and Lagace and she was satisfied his role was greater.
She said his conduct constituted a “significant breach”, given the quantity of the drug involved and the estimated street value of up to $29 million.
She accepted he was genuinely remorseful, with the 65-year-old writing in a letter to the court that he felt embarrassed, humiliated and apologetic to the Australian community.
“I stupidly did as others told me to do, rather than stand up for myself,” the letter read. “I know what I did was very wrong and that I must be punished for my actions.”
In his letter Tamine said drugs caused “nothing but hurt and destruction” and he was thankful the drugs on the cruise ship “were seized and never made it to land”.
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