Tahlia Videon, Jack Hayward charged with multiple counts of commercial drug trafficking after Para Hills raid
A young duo are accused of dealing six different types of drugs, as police are still trawling through “thousands and thousands of messages” over many social media platforms.
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A young duo accused of trafficking six different types of drugs, including thousands of LSD tabs, creatively hid their faces outside court from a waiting photographer.
Alleged commercial dealers Tahlia Paige Videon and Jack Toby Hayward, both 20, appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday, charged after the Para Hills raid.
A prosecutor told the court a charge determination had not been made and asked for a further six-week adjournment, as it was a “voluminous” job going through the materials.
The court heard three phones had been seized.
“There are thousands and thousands of messages on the phones, over many social media platforms,” the prosecutor said.
“It is a very large seizure involving a pill press, thousands and thousands of pills, 7000 LSD tabs.”
Ms Videon and Mr Hayward were arrested after police from the Northern District searched a Para Hills home on July 27, last year.
They located three litres of GHB or liquid fantasy, more than 7500 LSD tabs – a hallucinogenic drug – more than 100 Xanax tablets, 500g of MDMA, 20g of cocaine, 1kg of cannabis, a pill press and nearly $9500.
Photos of the LSD tabs which were released by SAPOL have quirky characters on them, including a tripping Albert Einstein and Rick and Morty from the popular television series.
SAPOL’s Facebook post of the alleged drug bust garnered a lot of public attention, with one user jokingly commenting that the graphics on LSD tabs had come a long way.
“Without my glasses, initially I thought that SAPOL had confiscated diamond art,” another Facebook user said.
“I thought the cops seized their cross stitch collection, I’m getting old,” commented another.
The duo are charged with three counts of large commercial trafficking, four counts of drug trafficking, money laundering and possessing prescribed equipment.
Ms Videon is also charged with failing to comply with a bail agreement.
If found guilty, offences involving large commercial quantities of drugs attract a maximum fine of $1m and/or life imprisonment.
The duo are yet to enter any pleas.
Counsel, for Ms Videon and Mr Hayward, said they weren’t opposed to the adjournment.
Magistrate Simon Smart adjourned the charges until April but warned there would be no further adjournments for charge determination.
Outside court, Ms Videon used her handbag to cover her face from a photographer, while Mr Hayward continually held up his court papers in attempts to block the shot.
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