Jak Noack jailed for four years for trafficking drugs on Snapchat

A young SA father could see only “dollar signs” while running a booming drug dealing business on Snapchat, a court has heard.

A “very busy” drug dealer will miss his son’s formative years after he was busted selling drugs to multiple clients on social media.

Jak Bailey Noack, 22, could see only “dollar signs” while he was running his illegal business, despite preparing to be a new father.

The Adelaide District Court last week heard police searched Noack’s Berri premises on February 15, 2021.

They found $1900, a tick list, marijuana and multiple weapons, including throwing knives and a crossbow.

Noack’s phone was analysed and they found him logged into a Snapchat account under the name ‘Stona11’.

He had a private Snapchat group named “Jak’s private” created in June, 2020.

The court heard Noack made 294 posts in the group over an eight-month period, including photos and videos of drugs advertised for sale.

“You sent and received messages from more than 60 individual accounts organising the sale of a range of controlled and prescription drugs,” Judge Simon Stretton said during sentencing.

Noack was selling multiple drugs, including marijuana, MDMA, cocaine and LSD and published price lists for the drugs in a range of quantities.

Noack had posted a photo of marijuana on February 13, 2021 saying: “Who needs unknown skunk? Bags to halves”.

Noack also posted a photo saying: “If you need a bag, give me a message, I should be able to sort you out. It will have to be one person every few hours at a time so it’s not suss”.

“On at least one occasion you refer to yourself as ‘running a shop’,” Judge Stretton said.

“You were operating a very considerable business.”

Supplied Editorial Jak Noack was jailed for drug trafficking. Photo: Facebook

Noack, of Loxton, had pleaded guilty to five counts of drug trafficking and possessing prohibited weapons.

The court heard Noack was also a drug user who had realised the wrongfulness of his actions after the birth of his son last year.

“You were a very busy, persistent, well-organised, street-level dealer in a range of drugs on an ongoing basis for profit,” Judge Stretton said.

“In your own words, all you could see were dollar signs.”

Judge Stretton sentenced Noack to four years and three months in jail, with a non-parole period of three years and six months.

“You were an ongoing trafficker of a variety of harmful drugs,” he said.

“You lack insight into the harm that conduct inflicts on society and even now you are unable to identify the real victims of your crimes.”