Jacqueline Lee Sharp avoided jail a second time for drug trafficking in Whyalla

A meth-addicted supermarket manager’s drug dealing side hustle crashes despite hiding meth in a crafty place.

A supermarket manager has dodged jail a second time after she was caught dealing meth only six months after being sentenced for the same offence.

Jacqueline Lee Sharp, 32, finally received the wake up call she needed and is now on the path to rehabilitation, a court has heard.

The Adelaide District Court last week heard police stopped a car that Sharp was a passenger in on January 29 at Whyalla Stuart.

Sharp, who was found with an ice pipe, threw her shoes on the ground after she got out of the car.

“Inside a sock within one of the shoes they found a container with 7.05g of methamphetamine in it,” Judge Gordon Barrett said during sentencing.

Police also found $2810 in her purse, with messages on Sharp’s phone revealing regular drug dealing sales.

Jacqueline Sharp avoided jail for drug trafficking in Whyalla. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Nikki Short

Sharp, of Whyalla Norrie, had pleaded guilty to drug trafficking.

The court heard Sharp had started using methamphetamine at the age of 22.

“From 2015 onwards you were a quite heavy consumer of the drug and unsurprisingly you became addicted,” Judge Barrett said.

The court heard Sharp was convicted of drug trafficking after she was found with 6.3g of methamphetamine and $1635 in January, 2020.

Sharp was sentenced in June last year to two years and 11 months jail, with a non-parole period of one year and eight months.

She was ordered to serve the sentence on home detention.

The court heard Sharp had continued to use methamphetamine after being arrested for the first trafficking charge.

“It would appear that your being caught trafficking for the second time in January 2021 was the wake up call you finally needed,” Judge Barrett said.

The court heard Sharp was a valued night-fill manager at Woolworths and was in charge of 25 employees.

Judge Barrett said Sharp, who had returned four negative drug tests, had shown “quite strong” evidence of her rehabilitation.

He sentenced Sharp to four years and one month jail, with a non-parole period of two years and four months.

It was suspended on a three-year $1000 good behaviour bond, with supervision, due to Sharp’s employment and good prospects of rehabilitation.