THE ABC reports that Canberra restaurateur John Harrington has been sentenced to four and a half years for his efforts to get into the cocaine trafficking business.
The court heard Harrington and another man had gone to the United States with more than $40,000 in cash to buy the drugs in 2011.
Cocaine was shipped in one of five car wax bottles, with police seizing a quarter of a kilogram of pure cocaine.
The drugs were intercepted in Sydney by police, and the bottle containing the cocaine was substituted before it was delivered in Canberra.
The head sentence is over four and a half years.
[Stock photo of cocaine]
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