Emma Milton, Jamie Satora: Former couple plead guilty to trafficking meth

One half of a former husband and wife team who trafficked methamphetamine in Toowoomba has been sentenced after pleading guilty in court.

In April 2024, former Toowoomba husband and wife team Emma Milton and Jamie Satora pleaded guilty to conducting a meth trafficking business between 2018 and 2020. Picture: File /News Regional Media

One half of an ex-husband and wife team, who started a drug trafficking business in Toowoomba selling methamphetamine, has been sentenced.

The former Darling Downs couple, Emma Milton and Jamie Satora, fronted Toowoomba Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 25, and pleaded guilty to a number of serious drug crimes.

Drug traffickers and former Toowoomba couple Jamie Satora and Emma Milton. Picture: File

However, the court heard Milton was a party to the crime and not the instigator, as the Crown prosecution submitted she was acting under the direction of her ex-husband.

Milton’s legal team put forward a case submitting that the young woman should not be required to serve actual time in prison.

The pair were arraigned separately and had their respective sentences adjourned.

Jamie Paul Satora

Satora was supported in court by a number of family members when he pleaded guilty to possessing and trafficking dangerous drugs.

The court heard between April 2019 and March 2020 at Toowoomba and elsewhere in Queensland, Satora and Milton carried out an unlawful business trafficking drugs.

In relation to the charge of meth possession, the court heard it occurred in 2020 at Kings Creek, Toowoomba, on April 27.

The pair were due to be sentenced together before a Toowoomba Court on April 24, 2024, however their matters were adjourned to different days.

An application to adjourn Satora’s case was accepted by Justice Martin Burns, who listed the matter for sentence before Toowoomba Supreme Court on May 27.

Satora instructed his legal team to make an application to revoke his bail and remand him in custody, which was granted.

No reason was placed before the court as to why Satora’s sentence did not go ahead or why he chose to spend the following month in custody awaiting his sentence.

Emma Frances Milton

Milton pleaded guilty to the same two offences as Satora and three additional summary charges.

Between April 18, 2019, and March 25, 2020, at Toowoomba and elsewhere in Queensland, she and Satora carried out an unlawful business trafficking drugs.

Bail granted: Emma Milton leaving Toowoomba court on April 24, 2024, after pleading guilty to trafficking meth with her former husband Jamie Satora.

The court heard between April 2019 and March 2020 Milton carried out an unlawful business trafficking drugs alongside Satora, and that she possessed methamphetamine at Kings Creek in April 2020.

Milton also pleaded guilty to possessing a drug pipe at Nobby on April 27, 2020, contravening the direction of a police officer at Toowoomba City on May 5, 2020, and possessing a restricted item (credit card knife) at Wellcamp on October 11, 2020.

Barrister Scott Lynch asked for his client’s sentence to be adjourned due to the large amount of material tendered to the court and for Milton to be released on bail.

Justice Burns granted both requests, noting although Milton was at risk of serving actual time for her part in the offending, it was not a “foregone conclusion”.

Emma Milton was supported by a number of family members when she was arraigned for serious drug charges before a Toowoomba Court in early 2024.

“One of the issues here is that Ms Milton has come along today (and) she’s prepared herself to face sentence and her family also prepared themselves … but because of the sheer weight of material the sentence has been adjourned,” he said.

“One of the reasons for that is so that I can give consideration to whether or not a sentence can be structured that involves her not going into prison so I’m sure she would agree that I should take my time.”

Her matter was adjourned to be sentenced before the Brisbane Supreme Court on Monday, April 29, where Milton now works and lives.

Justice Burns ultimately sentenced Milton to five years jail, suspended for five years.

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